Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Labour Party got united then at that time ? |
| 2 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 3 | In the USSR , however , there were reports at the beginning of the war that the Soviets were unhappy that a war had broken out at all and that a friendly state , Iraq , was at war with a regime that had conducted a revolution of which the USSR basically approved — and using Soviet arms into the bargain . |
| 4 | She was n't quite sure why she had come here at all , but it certainly was n't so she could sit and chat with this lot . |
| 5 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 6 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 7 | And if you do die before your 65th birthday , your dependents would receive the cash benefit that had built up at that time , or Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit — whichever is the greater . |
| 8 | Only half of the counter had opened up at this early hour and there were no more than half a dozen people in the place , most of them in uniform . |
| 9 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 10 | I kept asking myself how the photographers had arrived there at this particular track . |
| 11 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 12 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
| 13 | And since , as Mr Lawrence says , there could hardly be anything personal in the attack , we 're left with the probability that anyone who had happened along at that moment would have been dealt with in the same way . |
| 14 | It was true that Mrs Maugham 's moral fervour had had slightly more edge in the days before she herself acquired a television set , but even now she managed to retain sufficient cause for indignation , and the quality of her feeling for Mrs Hanney had changed not at all , though her attacks had been somewhat restricted in scope . |