Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last . |
| 2 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 3 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 4 | I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere . |
| 5 | Talking of pick me ups : Oxford United have got one coming at last . |
| 6 | So she allowed herself to return at last . |
| 7 | ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last . |
| 8 | While we 're deciding what to look at next , I ask John what Quo are up to presently … |
| 9 | Poulantzas thus constructs what appears at first to be a morass of categories in continual flux ; but he then extracts from it a pattern of relations which he regards as constant . |
| 10 | Anyway I 'm delighted to see we 've at last got round to this . |
| 11 | " Send Mai to my hut in two minutes , " she heard him say at last in a curt voice . |
| 12 | ‘ I feel I 've at last found what I really want to do in life , Jannie , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The nurse said of course they could use the phone , but they should have themselves looked at first . |
| 14 | PAUSE I thought I knew at last who you were , why you liked me at school , why you took the trouble to read those poems I 'd written . |
| 15 | Now , however , her husband had a motor-car — the first Cork Jew to possess one — and as they drove to the synagogue , their distinguished visitor , Karlinsky , beside her in the back seat , she felt she had at last come into her kingdom . |
| 16 | He was unhappy but he felt he had at last sorted his life out . |
| 17 | Those who rebut any ideas of extraterrestrial civilizations ask what seems at first sight to be a very salient question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 18 | As experienced dog owners we thought we knew what to expect at first — a little mess , some chewing , a bit of a handful . |
| 19 | They probably do improve the services to the people on the estates ; they do hurry along their repairs , which I think you mentioned at first , Bill , but we 've still retained a central department . |
| 20 | Do you understand at last ? |
| 21 | Who 's did she look at first ? |
| 22 | 8 A coin collector has C coins and is given a further 20 coins.If he now has 2,352 coins altogether , how many did he have at first ? |
| 23 | Just as they were leaving she did at last catch sight of some friends from school . |
| 24 | ‘ Candidate ( thinking he has at last come upon a Village Hampden ) : ‘ I can not conceive that the Election can in any way affect your rights here . ’ |
| 25 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 26 | Lesley-Anne Rawlings , prosecuting , said he had at first claimed he had gone into the school on August 9 to try and put the fire out . |
| 27 | Tank had what appeared at first sight to be good credentials , having designed the Focke Wulf 190 aircraft which had given Germany air superiority for eighteen months during the Second World War . |
| 28 | See what happens at next year 's National Championship Air Races , September 16/19 , 1993 . |
| 29 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |