Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came here at first , the side were top of the First Division , but there was no apparent feeling for the game . |
| 2 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 3 | I think maybe at first she should have a morning meeting , or a weekly meeting , to discuss the menus for the following week . |
| 4 | I did just at first , because I missed my Mum , so I used to go back to visit her . |
| 5 | Jean-Paul could feel himself getting hard at last . |
| 6 | In 1927 the South American Secretariat started publishing La Correspondencia Sudamericana , which appeared fortnightly at first . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted slowly at last , ‘ I suppose I was shocked … the truth was very different from what I 'd imagined . ’ |
| 8 | Was she getting somewhere at last ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why do you keep staring at me ? ’ she demanded edgily at last . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think I really had any doubts about them , ’ she said slowly at last . |
| 11 | ‘ Then why did n't you say so at first ? |
| 12 | ‘ Shall I tell the band you 're ill ? ’ she suggested helpfully at last . |
| 13 | The they were niggers here when we came here at first . |
| 14 | We arrived home at last on April 13th , 1702 , and I saw my dear wife and children again . |
| 15 | It was a good ship and everything went well at first , but I was very ill again . |
| 16 | When they drew apart at last Travis carried her to the nearest armchair , cradling her across his lap . |
| 17 | Often tagged ‘ the Varsity Match ’ , they worked together at first . |
| 18 | When they went upstairs at last , I stayed on the terrace . |
| 19 | As he moved slowly at first his mouth sought first her breasts and then her lips , his breathing ragged as the pulsating , rhythmic movement quickened , echoing the rising heat in her blood , both of them caught up in a swirling vortex of emotions . |
| 20 | He says only at first it was all new to me . |
| 21 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 22 | As he pulled out of the gas station exit onto the highway , he drove carefully at first , getting the feel of the big powerful car . |
| 23 | Yes but is he coming home at tenth or is he gon na be |
| 24 | ‘ Did my lovemaking revolt you so much , then ? ’ he demanded roughly at last . |
| 25 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 27 | Ooh twelve months like that , as long as you get it dried properly at first you see . |
| 28 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |