Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jan starts hers at four , for which I take my hat off to her . |
| 2 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 3 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 4 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 6 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 7 | The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November . |
| 8 | His words surprised her at first , then anger took over — an anger so intense that she was prepared to walk out of her marriage and do irreparable damage to the Royal Family . |
| 9 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 10 | A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families . |
| 11 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 12 | Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday . |
| 13 | There 's no reasson to keep it at all . |
| 14 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 15 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
| 16 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 18 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 19 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 20 | Mistake was perhaps to let Moira F. see it at this stage , he wrote . |
| 21 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 22 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 23 | They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’ |
| 24 | The interpretation of what remains as historical evidence is after all fundamental to the historians craft , but the deliberate preservation of historical source materials in the absence of context ( or worse still the failure to preserve them at all ) surely does little justice to the society in which we live . |
| 25 | She made appointments to meet me at different places : restaurants , art galleries . |
| 26 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 27 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 28 | Walsh dropped him at long leg off Ambrose on 22 then , at 66 , crucially , David Williams , another first-timer at this level alongside Adams and Benjamin , floored a regulation catch behind , thereby allowing Hudson further demonstrations of a trademark straight drive . |
| 29 | Once or twice she re-issued her invitation to the Carrows to visit them at Four Winds , but it seemed that there were always perfectly valid reasons why they could not accept . |
| 30 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |