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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had looked seriously at soft-eyed young men , pierced , as often as not , by arrows . |
| 4 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 5 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 6 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 7 | It had disintegrated ( in despair , one assumed ) many years ago , but Dorothy continued to bawl furiously at passing vehicles and to write letters to the commanding officer of the local airbase , who returned each time the same duplicated reply of infinite courtesy and obscurity . |
| 8 | One night he was over the moors around North Stainmore and had to return home at dead of night . |
| 9 | But the moment Vincente 's back was turned the ball tended to squirt off at eccentric angles — or , worse , refuse to move at all . |