Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 2 | I messed at first with Harry Phillimore , who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 3 | Moving with no clear sense of direction , I arrived at last at a wooden hut , set in a clearing in the forest which covered that part of the mountain . |
| 4 | But despite how I felt at first about myself when I lost my leg , I have n't really had that many problems with boyfriends . |
| 5 | ‘ So … do you know my answer ? ’ she whispered at last on a shaky laugh , tightening her fingers round Roman 's hard forearm as he drew her closer against him . |
| 6 | ‘ All right , I 'll leave , ’ she agreed at last in a low voice . |
| 7 | So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride . |
| 8 | ‘ Not exactly , ’ she answered at last with as much honesty as she could without giving anything away . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ she said at last with exaggerated patience . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ she said at last with only a faint betraying tremor in her voice , ‘ if you really are dead set on staying to help , there is something you could do . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm awake , ’ she said at last in a voice strained with hurt . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it would be better if we sat a little further apart , ’ she said at last in a slightly cracked tone . |
| 13 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |
| 14 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 15 | We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock . |
| 16 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
| 17 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 18 | They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees . |
| 19 | They turned at last from this one point of certainty in their world and walked along the fringe of the forest , picking their way between the trees but keeping the Waste in view . |
| 20 | In Wasmes he lived at first with a baker called Jean-Baptiste Denis and his wife Esther . |
| 21 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 22 | He ruled at first in a subordinate position to his brother , Aethelberht ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but whether or not the Aethelberht , king of Kent , who died in 762 ( ASC A , s.a. 760 ) , is to be identified with Aethelberht , son of Wihtred , has been disputed . |
| 23 | " Are you going on Surete General business ? " he asked at last in a low voice after glancing around again to see if they could be overheard . |
| 24 | " Why are n't you interested in this good news ? " he asked at last in an exasperated voice . |
| 25 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 26 | He came at last to a small , lean-to workshop where a girl , seated at a bench with her back to him , was decorating a pot placed on a turntable . |
| 27 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 28 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 29 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |
| 30 | The real reason was that he felt at ease ; he was no longer a figure of fun or an eyesore , he had a place — just as he did at first with Sien . |