Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | Then my money ran out and I stopped going out at all . |
| 3 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 , |
| 6 | Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Lt. Mietusch reported engaging eight Hurricanes , one of which he claimed shot down at 1845 , the pilot baling out . |
| 9 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 10 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Because say Gail and Keith go got woken up at three o'clock in the morning |
| 14 | A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 18 | He managed to blurt out at one stage in the proceedings : ‘ I did n't have any dollars , no gold , I do n't smoke and I earn 3,500 lei a month . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 20 | He wondered why she bothered to come back at all . |
| 21 | Another thing that did come up at that training day the other day was that we all need a , a , a , anybody that 's going to do any sort of appraising will need to know what the erm training programme is |
| 22 | Were there things which the student nurses did complain about at all ? |
| 23 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 24 | By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities . |
| 25 | In the USSR , however , there were reports at the beginning of the war that the Soviets were unhappy that a war had broken out at all and that a friendly state , Iraq , was at war with a regime that had conducted a revolution of which the USSR basically approved — and using Soviet arms into the bargain . |
| 26 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 27 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 28 | But he had to find out at some stage , did n't he ? ’ |
| 29 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 30 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |