Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nenna wished to reply that it was not for the expected reasons — not pride , not resentment , not even the curious acquired characteristics of the river dwellers , which made them scarcely at home in London 's streets . |
| 2 | ‘ A lot of players , including Gazza , found the game passed them by at times . |
| 3 | The genitors of the children had a recognized standing in relation to their spouses but they visited them only at night and did not take food in the taravad house of their " wives " . |
| 4 | Leigh travelled to London to meet the Goldsmiths later in July , but " found them not at home " . |
| 5 | She phoned me up at home on a Sunday , asking |
| 6 | Eventually when we found ourselves nearly at 1,500ft , I said to myself , and into the microphone , quite plainly so he could overhear : " This puts the undercarriage up . " |
| 7 | The Bloodthirster cast itself forward at Indraugnir and slowly wrestled the dragon down . |
| 8 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 9 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
| 10 | I mean I tried it out at work I show you the this is what they used at work . |
| 11 | We found it over at Scano 's . |
| 12 | Unable to resist any longer , he flung himself back at Robert . |
| 13 | It were twelve o'clock when you went today , when you dropped me off at work . |
| 14 | Bradl injured himself again at Calafat , a few weeks after the final GP . |
| 15 | and er , I mean what she saw of Kerry was , she dropped her here at quarter to nine , she picked her up between five and half past and the rest of her she saw around kid , the rest of the time she saw her own kid and er Julia was to have her until she went to school , so I mean how can there be any bond there , which there ca n't , but the mother said herself I had her because it was the done thing so I mean it 's , it 's today in n it do n't you think ? |
| 16 | She was not feeling in the least cheerful however when the taxi dropped her off at Ven 's home . |
| 17 | They buried her up at St Saviour 's , in the far corner of the graveyard where the ground slopes away from the redstone church . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think the crane lifted her on at Kinshasa ? ’ whispers Joseph . |
| 19 | I suffered it again at Barnsley Park , when our main building period was post-AD 375 , after which there were substantial changes compressed into three periods . |
| 20 | cos he filled it in at weekend and I posted it Monday or Tuesday , one of them two |
| 21 | Topknot screeched something back at Gurder . |
| 22 | At first Emma had taken Ruth to the school twice a day , and fetched her home at midday and at night . |
| 23 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 24 | You must not take risks and the idea is to hit the opposing tackler and keep the momentum going through second phase , which is not pretty to watch — and not always effective if the other team can tackle , as England showed us recently at Murrayfield . |
| 25 | A. T. In those days , if you locked somebody up at night , you might be let off duty at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 26 | Hatchet-faced , tough as the city 's granite , Yevdoxia plumped herself down at Anna 's side . |
| 27 | ‘ Not the second time , not in March when they knocked it off at Stamford . |
| 28 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 29 | Rang us up at quarter past bloody one this morning ! |
| 30 | When Cromwell became Protector in December 1653 Simpson and Feake attacked him ferociously at Allhallows . |