Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [pers pn] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rhetoric of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere still talked of Japanese altruism , but few took it at face value . |
| 2 | Some demanded them at gunpoint , but we had hidden ours and my parents explained in German that they had already been taken . |
| 3 | Badgers ' coats are also getting thicker as winter approaches and this put them at risk from diggers who sell their pelts to unscrupulous collectors . |
| 4 | all got it at work , it 's being in an office . |
| 5 | Sir Stafford Cripps in 1950 pegged them at £410 million . |
| 6 | Henry II received them at Winchester on 21 September , but postponed consideration of their case until he himself should come to Normandy . |
| 7 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 8 | August 1915 saw them at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli campaign and they suffered heavy casualties at Chocolate Hill . |