Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 3 | I did use more at first when I was buying grams , say a year ago , when I was doin' that , but , say this last year I was trying to pace meself out 'cos I knew that I 'd run outa money eventually , so I had to try and make it last … . |
| 4 | ‘ Pubs , ’ he had said briefly at first . |
| 5 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 6 | She wanted to go there at last and peep through wrought-iron gates into beautiful gardens . |
| 7 | He retired to live quietly at first at Oatlands Park , maintaining his religious Nonconformity . |