Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Get it done cos they send you off at ten . |
| 11 | You know it , it was good and that 's , you know , and that 's not knocking you apart at all |
| 12 | ‘ I want you there at eight o'clock , please . |
| 13 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 14 | It moved him not at all . |
| 15 | I do n't know him hardly at all . |
| 16 | I caught him up at last . |
| 17 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 27 | I mean one assumes that 's why the Highway Authority put them there at that size . |
| 28 | If you took all the cells of a swallow and put them together at random , the chance that the resulting object would fly is not , for everyday purposes , different from zero . |
| 29 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |
| 30 | Do n't give me enough at all ! |