Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 2 | Indirect Rule and the evolution of the Commonwealth idea had disarmed much left-wing criticism of the empire in the years between the wars and encouraged the development among British radicals of ‘ responsible ’ views on imperial subjects , which came naturally to bloom when Labour found itself at last in office . |
| 3 | Sister Ellen , our SND General Moderator , visited us at one of the farm schools . |
| 4 | ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’ |
| 5 | There seemed nothing at all like this from what she had observed of Liza 's and John 's relationship . |
| 6 | Was there no traffic on the Leeds LISTSERV during the weekend , as I received nothing at all about our glorious or not so glorious win , whichever newpaper you bothered to buy at the weekend . |
| 7 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |
| 8 | Bernice threw herself at another of the creatures . |
| 9 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 10 | She rang me at half past ten , I 'd forgotten all about it till phone went and I says ooh I 've lost your phone number . |
| 11 | Just re-opened it at twenty to six . |
| 12 | They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge . |
| 13 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 14 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 15 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 16 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 17 | Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions . |
| 18 | To our utter dismay and astonishment , he told us that our certificates meant nothing at all to him or BSAC and that ‘ even if Jacques Cousteau were to come along with a PADI qualification , no notice would be taken of it . ’ |
| 19 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 20 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 21 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 22 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 23 | Her memoirs formed the inspiration for the film ‘ The King and I ’ , although Thomson 's portraits of the King show that he looked nothing at all like Yul Brynner . |
| 24 | He brought nothing at all into the marriage , and the family wanted nothing to do with him . |
| 25 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 26 | I do n't know a great deal about the sorcerers of the Future , ’ said Calatin , who actually knew nothing at all about them , but thought it would sound unprofessional to admit this , ‘ but I do n't think we should rely on them . |
| 27 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 28 | On the face of it , it seemed that she was gaining Ana 's confidence , but then Felipe already had her confidence and he knew nothing at all about her blindness . |
| 29 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 30 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |