Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 2 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 3 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 4 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 5 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 6 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 7 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 8 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 9 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 10 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 11 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 12 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 13 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 14 | His fiancee , Julie Craig , 26 , who lived with him at 34 Churchill Drive , Ardrossan , said that her boyfriend had gone wild in hospital when she visited him . |
| 15 | Elsie , who lived with us at that time , just sat with tears streaming down her face . |
| 16 | Man , she hardly registered with me at all . ’ |
| 17 | Never never heard from her at all since then . |
| 18 | A guy in a bell-bottomed jumpsuit flew by me at some speed and struck the sidewalk . |
| 19 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 20 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 21 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 22 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
| 23 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 24 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 25 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 26 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 28 | But whatever she was up to — and it was something — she spent days ticking and marking the party guest list , a thick , creamy piece of paper she kept with her at all times . |
| 29 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 30 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |