Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 2 | She was about to say so , in no uncertain terms , but stopped herself at the last moment . |
| 3 | Sheffield went ahead after 30 minutes when Gage knocked the ball past Allen as he burst into the goalmouth and , though Walker parried both his shot and Deane 's follow-up , Deane beat him at the third attempt . |
| 4 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 5 | Taping rehearsals also reduces the likelihood of arguments about who played what at the last rehearsal . |
| 6 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 7 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 8 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 9 | It had been uppermost in her mind to ask about Marc , but her courage failed her at the last . |
| 10 | She saw him at the first lecture , and thrilled at his cultured voice . |
| 11 | DEC president Bob Palmer , who was supposed to grace this week 's gathering with his presence — see front page — absented himself at the last minute . |
| 12 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 13 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |
| 14 | Cannon stole one at the sixth to go 5-1 up . |