Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't buy Nestle now at all . |
| 2 | ‘ I used to know Wapping well at one stage of my career , ’ Devlin said . |
| 3 | Having arranged to meet Morton back at Old Jewry , Bragg took a train to Hackney Downs and walked the quarter-mile to the police station . |
| 4 | There was no time to think about it , because I had to pick Toby up at ten o'clock — at the crack of dawn , as he put it — to drive down to the Supersight factory . |
| 5 | Bob Ivie and Tony Marinello were running the bar , having a great time , and making themselves easily popular ; they were ignoring Dizzy 's Women in favour of the locals , leaving the Sloanes to stand around looking remote and faintly embarrassed in a way that displeased Diane not at all . |
| 6 | The one upholstered in blue left Euston at 1.30 pm ; the other left Glasgow at the same hour and they flashed past one another at Preston to reach Glasgow simultaneously at 8 pm . |
| 7 | That he was sorting George out at last . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you been able to contact Liam directly at all ? ’ said the invisible interviewer . |
| 9 | It 'll be worse now , in retrospect , it 'll worse phoning Amy up at that moment and asking what the name was . |
| 10 | He gives Sting away at III , 204 , keeping an orc-blade but saying ‘ I do not think it will be my part to strike any blow again . ’ |
| 11 | If anyone put Jacklin oft at this stage it was me , because I let out a roar when Lee 's ball went in , and I was keen to get to the 18th . |
| 12 | ‘ Jay is a fabulous cook , ’ said Francis loudly at one point . |