Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just re-opened it at twenty to six . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |