Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen Caspar down at Mrs Wright 's , had n't he . |
| 2 | And er I was informed like that er I I had d stop till six o'clock at night , that night , and I was informed that er I 'd got to come back at night and bring me men . |
| 3 | Motorola Inc 's 88000 RISC family seemed to have lost out at Harris Computer Systems Corp when the Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based firm announced it was switching allegiances to the IBM/Apple/Motorola PowerPC architecture ( UX No 407 ) , however the company now says it will roll-out 88110 versions of its NightHawk real-time machines by the end of March . |
| 4 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 5 | Would you ev would you ever get any comeback from you your father , if you got told told off at school ? |
| 6 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 7 | He turned to wash himeslf down at the sink , and it was minutes later when he and former girlfriend , Maxine Weblin , realised Rosie was dead . |
| 8 | He therefore brought Sobers close in at cover and told Gibbs to flight the ball at Harvey . |
| 9 | Places dedicated to film presentation , the penny gaffes , did start to spring up at the beginning of the new century , but it was only with the emergence of long films around 1910 that cinema acquired any sort of institutional presence in British towns . |
| 10 | Guido had stopped to gaze down at her . |
| 11 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 12 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 13 | All except Gooseneck , Amiss and one of the girls were in ordinary clothes , and having looked at what was available for breakfast Amiss wondered why they had bothered turning up at all . |
| 14 | She had attempted to clean up at least . |
| 15 | She had been tired after her early shift , which had necessitated getting up at six ; perhaps that was why she had slipped so easily into that state of contented , almost hypnotic languor . |
| 16 | Two years previously he had wanted to hit back at fate for the death of his three cousins ; now he was so joyful that he felt he must compensate in this sacrificial way . |
| 17 | The Council of the Zoological Society of London had planned to shut down at the end of September . |
| 18 | Later she dug about in the fridge ; and although the result was depressing , she did find and consume two pots of yoghurt , a hunk of cheese and a slice of ham which had begun to curl up at its edges . |
| 19 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 20 | I wanted to buy some blades and socks , but most of all I wanted to avoid arriving back at the flat at the exact time she did , just in case Harvey should be angry at her disobeying him . |
| 21 | Now do you think anybody who was n't already tied in to that wanted to get tied in at that time ? ’ |