Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 2 | No , I bottled out at last minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Well at least you got through at last , ’ said Carrington . |
| 4 | That was all she took in at first , until Miss Belle cried in an excited voice , ‘ Well , Rene , take the coat off and let her feel it . |
| 5 | As he released her hand and slid his fingers through her hair , drawing her unresisting head towards him , she reached out at last to touch the dark curls at his ear . |
| 6 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 7 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |
| 8 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 9 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 10 | He drew back at last . |
| 11 | ‘ You know my position , ’ he broke out at last . |
| 12 | ‘ But why ? ’ asked the Ambassador when he looked up at last . |
| 13 | He held back at first , but only until she was confined in the hospital at Leyden . |
| 14 | He sat down at last to silence , but as a man fulfilled : the tutorial was over . |