Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1	And they did n't really want them back at that time .
2	To generate a biological molecule like haemoglobin , the red pigment in blood , by simple sieving would be equivalent to taking all the amino-acid building blocks of haemoglobin , jumbling them up at random , and hoping that the haemoglobin molecule would reconstitute itself by sheer luck .
3	First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning .
4	Pick me up at two forty-five .
5	‘ Pick me up at eleven , ’ he said .
6	Pick me up at half past four .
7	When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m .
8	Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine .
9	I 've often speculated since on what would have happened if we 'd just given ourselves up at this point .
10	To borrow an analogy from an eminent astronomer , if you take the parts of an airliner and jumble them up at random , the likelihood that you would happen to assemble a working Boeing is vanishingly small .
11	Joe , I wonder , would it help members if , we , we as it were , almost moved the reductions , from our point of view , we say nothing further at this point , and the officers ' point of view , and leave members who might like to pick up on them , and , and talk about individual ones as they go through .
12	Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them .
13	Get it done cos they send you off at ten .
14	You know it , it was good and that 's , you know , and that 's not knocking you apart at all
15	‘ I want you there at eight o'clock , please .
16	He appeared jumpy and ill at ease , ready to blurt something out at any moment .
17	Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 .
18	It moved him not at all .
19	I do n't know him hardly at all .
20	I caught him up at last .
21	Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him .
22	Only an organisation of this kind was capable of doing justice to the cause of the deaf and dumb and of representing it properly at national level .
23	Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late .
24	This is because the ‘ syntax ’ of theory , the logic on which it is based , is at the root of structures which have historically been used to trivialize , marginalize , and devalue the discourse of women , to pass it off at best as a mere fiction , and at worst as an illicit form of language use or one in poor taste , like the pun .
25	You 're right ; they ought to pull themselves together at one place .
26	‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’
27	Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God .
28	‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said .
29	And I feel really guilty , I think oh I better bring her in and then she wakes me up at six o'clock bouncing on the bed !
30	After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures .

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