Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Get it done cos they send you off at ten . |
| 10 | I caught him up at last . |
| 11 | Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him . |
| 12 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He wakes me up at two in the morning sometimes , for no reason at all , ’ Peter said . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And tell her to pick me up at ten thirty . |
| 19 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |
| 20 | A car is picking me up at 1.30 to take me to Thames T.V. to be made up as a Chinese coolie . |
| 21 | We got a same day driver picking me up at five fo , five thirty outside the hotel . |
| 22 | Glen 's picking me up at half six , yeah |
| 23 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 24 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 25 | So she might be better he might be better going with Gill , I 'll tell him tonight erm she 's going over there at two and coming back at three thirty and she wanted Lee to go , like , at three thirty and she 'd bring him back at half past eight at night . |
| 26 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 27 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 28 | And I 'll send him along at seven then ? |
| 29 | Oh it 's so funny , cos the second time he could n't , he came back and I think I was upstairs , and she did n't shut the door and I said all four , cos I 've got to pick her up at five , he said oh , anyway he went back , after dinner he 'd gone back and I said told you about it 's five o'clock , he said are you on me . |
| 30 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |