Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 2 | Vacations had proved such a strain that she stopped going home at all in the end , applying for any holiday jobs which offered accommodation . |
| 3 | Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all . |
| 4 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 5 | This involved beaming heartily at all newcomers to the carriage and exuding humour , warmth and trivial monologue . |
| 6 | Vic Wilcox is in a meeting with his Marketing Director , Brian Everthorpe , who answered Vic 's summons at 9.30 complaining of contraflow holdups on the motorway , and whom Vic , himself dictating letters at 9.30 , told to come back at eleven . |
| 7 | That 's where the real problem lies , if you could have had the P A , if you could have gone into the cupboard and got it , even though we 'd turned up at ten past six , |
| 8 | Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order . |
| 9 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 10 | GRIEF stricken children arrived weeping yesterday at one local secondary school — where two pupils were among the missing . |
| 11 | Lt. Mietusch reported engaging eight Hurricanes , one of which he claimed shot down at 1845 , the pilot baling out . |
| 12 | Nearly half the women questioned in the General Household Survey , published by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , who drank between eight and 14 units a week claimed to drink hardly at all . |
| 13 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 14 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 15 | Police declined to comment further at this stage and Mr Alec Chipstead , a chartered surveyor , was not available for questioning . ’ |
| 16 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 17 | It was a further achievement that delegates from these two , until recently hostile , camps could clash sharply in debate during the conference without acrimony , although black consciousness delegates from Natal threatened to walk out at one stage . |
| 18 | At eighteen , he was physically much more mature than most English ballet students , because at that time they left school and began dancing professionally at sixteen or even younger . |
| 19 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |
| 20 | The traffic began to move again at that point , though , and to Jessamy 's relief he had to give his attention to the road ahead . |
| 21 | I had about Friday night I finished work here at twelve and then up again at and I got about two hours sleep then and I started to . |
| 22 | They began working together at high school , and moved on to ‘ open-mike ’ nights at folk clubs in Atlanta , covering songs by Jackson Browne , Carole King and James Taylor . |
| 23 | In the reflected light of the fire he saw the silhouette of an entirely naked Moi female kneeling at his side , and as he watched , her hands began working rhythmically at some unseen task . |
| 24 | Because say Gail and Keith go got woken up at three o'clock in the morning |
| 25 | When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ? |
| 26 | A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point . |
| 27 | Instantly , as if it were a bad oyster , Agnes spat my dick out of her mouth and started shrieking back at this loathed adversary of hers — Agnes 's language , it was unimaginable : even I was grossed out by it . |
| 28 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 29 | Then you turned thirty , started to nod off at ten-thirty and had attacks of the Blue Spots when you ran up a flight of stairs . |
| 30 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |