Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as a pension , so if I 'd retired at that point , and then worked part time |
| 2 | Well when I was thirteen I supposed to be having b bad trouble and I went to doctor 's and instead of knocking off school at waiting till I was fourteen , I 'd finished at thirteen . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd started at 17 or 18 , who knows what I might have achieved . |
| 4 | And I 'd started at six in the morning . |
| 5 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 6 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 7 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 8 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 9 | amazed that I had returned at all , and |
| 10 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
| 11 | He was blond with deep-set brown eyes which looked troubled at this moment , and he was well dressed . |
| 12 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 13 | In one corner of the tower lay the bell which had fallen at some time in the past . |
| 14 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 15 | Pre-tax profits on UK sales for the entire industry , which had stood at 8 per cent in 1978 , dropped to zero in 1979 . |
| 16 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 17 | For instance , infant mortality , which had stood at 147 per thousand ( births ) at the turn of the century , was reduced to 20 per thousand in 1965 and nine per thousand in 1987 . |
| 18 | His eyes settled on a restaurant called Mr Scallini which had opened at 139 . |
| 19 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 20 | She became paralysed at sixteen , the day after undergoing a routine operation on her jaw at Poole General Hospital . |
| 21 | If you wanted to kill someone , and you 'd struck at one kidney , you 'd certainly strike at the other . |
| 22 | She 'd decided at first that her brother deserved what was coming to him , but on reflection no one deserved to be thrown at Guido 's mercy . |
| 23 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 24 | She 'd laughed at that and resisted the urge to cuddle him in front of one of ‘ the lads ’ and had gone . |
| 25 | Things were n't turning out as she 'd expected at all ; now she was dazed , confused , hardly knew where she was or what she was saying . |
| 26 | She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married . |
| 27 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 28 | As for Meredith , she forgot about him once she had ventured at last into the supermarket . |
| 29 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 30 | Let's go and see it , he had said , and she had recoiled at first . |