Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 CARL Fogarty has done it at last !
2 Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession .
3 Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today .
4 He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor .
5 A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound .
6 Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’
7 She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently .
8 She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business .
9 ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line .
10 She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk .
11 None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning …
12 After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again .
13 He seemed obtuse , as she felt by this time that she had more than cancelled out any slight encouragement she might have given him at first .
14 Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all .
15 You would n't have expected it at all .
16 But why should he have considered me at all ?
17 On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ .
18 Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment .
19 I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then .
20 At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage .
21 You should have phoned me at ten o'clock , I would have picked you up .
22 In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all !
23 How happy it would have made her at any other time .
24 Your companion might not have made it at all . ’
25 Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all .
26 In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem .
27 And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five .
28 He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’
29 I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief .
30 That would n't have surprised him at all .
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