Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 2 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 3 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 4 | She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk . |
| 5 | After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again . |
| 6 | Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices . |
| 7 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 8 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 9 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 10 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 11 | The War Councils of the gangs had chosen it at random . |
| 12 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 13 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |