Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 6 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 7 | Nausea overwhelmed her at last . |
| 8 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 9 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
| 10 | God and the saints remembered her at last . ’ |
| 11 | Only on his way home at lunchtime did he at last rouse himself enough to make a detour , and stop by at his brother 's apartment and invite Franco to come home with him for lunch . |
| 12 | Reveille stirred him at first light , and after one last look at Tommy 's grave he returned to his platoon , to be informed that the Commanding Officer would be addressing the troops at zero nine hundred hours . |
| 13 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 14 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 15 | SHABBA DOES IT AT LAST |
| 16 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 17 | Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes make us at last to know something the man has always wanted to know … |