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Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction .
3	Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions !
4	The wind woke her at six , hustling the leaves on the trees , still green in November .
5	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 .
6	Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower .
7	A.A. rang me at 4 o/c she returned on 2nd and had had grand time with Gwenda and families .
8	Now er Richard rang me at five o'clock yesterday .
9	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 .
10	‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last .
11	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 .
12	Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared .
13	The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function .
14	Nausea overwhelmed her at last .
15	Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 .
16	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 .
17	Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head .
18	Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions .
19	Danger of choking stopped him at that point .
20	The hotel manager woke me at 10 a.m. with a telegram from my mother , which had been delayed .
21	There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence .
22	Her scorn stung him at last .
23	Danny called her at two that afternoon .
24	God and the saints remembered her at last . ’
25	The servants had theirs at two , gathered round the scrubbed table in the big kitchen .
26	The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ?
27	Scott Hastings followed him over two minutes later but a try by Mark Seymour levelled it at 12–12 .
28	His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all .
29	The highly-athletic Lewis bagged him at 197 , stooping and clutching a low drive .
30	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 .