Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nearly starved at first because I could n't bear the idea of eating — well — insects and the like , but it 's amazing what you can get used to . ’ |
| 2 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 3 | Because of a succession of injuries and poor results she now stands at 102nd , her lowest-ever position . |
| 4 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 5 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 6 | Your mag promotes and encourages all this ; reading an analysis of Joe Satriani 's playing , for example , probably does little for the confidence of most readers ( I myself found it quite stretching at first ! ) . |
| 7 | These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L . |