Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm quite pleased with how I got on at work today with the amount of work I 'd done that |
| 2 | And she finally got in at quarter to and she 's , oh Kim said she was in a dreadful state . |
| 3 | Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ? |
| 4 | Deputy hooker Ian Jeffery drafted in at blindside flanker typified the courageous tackling of the home team to avert a glut of scores by the visitors the County pack plying back enough possession to win a dozen games . |
| 5 | After his second day as substitute games and sports master , Bodie drove wearily to CI5 , and checked in at Forensic , then at Traffic . |
| 6 | Can you remember we used on at Lent . |
| 7 | Clothes are modelled and tried on at leisure . |
| 8 | About 150 police moved in at daylight to make arrests . |
| 9 | Canvas covered and drawn by up to eight horses , most of them moved along at walking pace , but some lighter vans or " fly wagons " with more regular change of horses were faster . |
| 10 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 11 | Moments later he drew up at Hell Bunker , a deep , sprawling dune that once was the most famous bunker in all of St Andrews . |
| 12 | The complex procedures were executed without a hitch : artillery positions were abandoned by the British and smoothly taken over by French units ; as British battalions moved out at night , their French replacements moved in — and all the while without any sign that the Germans recognized what they were about . |
| 13 | The track along Rhossili Down 's ridge top was rough and rocky , with a wild west sort of feel to it as a few hardy-looking cattle wandered about at will on the humped and pitted pastures to the right , which my map indicated are the remains of neolithic burial chambers . |
| 14 | Replacements : G Hastings ( Scotland ) , M Knoetze ( S Africa ) , T Horan ( Australia ) , P Fatialofa ( Western Samoa ) , P Kearns , W Ofahengaue ( Australia ) and A Perelini ( Western Samoa ) came on at half-time for Joubert , Yoshida , Claasen , Sole , Schmidt , Nasser and Mackinnon . |
| 15 | The driver banged on his horn but Gregson drove on at speed , unconcerned by the accident he 'd almost caused . |
| 16 | The miners tramped up the valleys in the morning , worked all day and came down at night . |
| 17 | when you came down at dinner time , when you came charging into the common room . |
| 18 | Very good signing Phillips has been already he 's er played both sides of midfield filled in at centre back as well in recent matches . |
| 19 | When Jim and I came along at night time on Wednesday |
| 20 | I do n't think so , not again , but I am annoyed with him Jane , because I lost a fiver today plus tax on his first mount ; that was Lupesku , that came in at second at five to one , he then rode Balasinya and Patricia , I think they 're still running Jane . |
| 21 | Yeah I like to , I like to have a go at different things I mean the the the other the other lunchtime we had you know he came in at lunchtime and er Shirley had gone somewhere Ann and er I 'll have the chicken kiev for me please so so I went and did it did you cook that for him ? |
| 22 | Dick Cracknell moved to left-half and Hamilton came in at centre-half for a the stern test against the 1st Division side . |
| 23 | So devoted was Meirion that when he came in at dawn once , to get the boilers going , he tripped on a pipe in the shunting shed and broke his forearm . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you mean when he came in at dawn ? ’ she breathed provocatively . |
| 25 | I mean see last night , we went to bed last night , he came in at noon did n't he ? |
| 26 | The car drove off at speed , the tyres screeching , and disappeared into the endless bricks of suburbia . |
| 27 | My grandfather taught me necessary skills : how to tip my tea into my saucer and blow waves across it until it was cool enough to drink ; how to cut an orange in half crossways and pack a sugar lump into each half and then suck out orange-juice and sugar together ; how to walk along the crazy-paving garden path without stepping On any of the cracks or a tiger would get you ; how to butter the loaf and then clutch it to your chest and then shave off paper-thin slices ; what saint to pray to when you woke up at night and saw the devil moving behind the curtains . |
| 28 | she woke up at quarter to five . |
| 29 | Coleridge had rolled in his sleep down the hill slope to within a few yards of the river , and when he woke up at dawn , he found he was unable to move or even to call out to the shepherds and workmen he could see near by . |
| 30 | A copy came up at auction in New York in June 1989 and was sold for $60,000 . |