Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where the real problem lies , if you could have had the P A , if you could have gone into the cupboard and got it , even though we 'd turned up at ten past six , |
| 2 | Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order . |
| 3 | Me , I I mean , I 've done I 've done no work today because I went out to collect some stuff of a friend this morning and by the time I came in it was quarter past ten and I 'd gone out at ten to nine so I 'd missed the schools |
| 4 | Lt. Mietusch reported engaging eight Hurricanes , one of which he claimed shot down at 1845 , the pilot baling out . |
| 5 | Because say Gail and Keith go got woken up at three o'clock in the morning |
| 6 | So the Labour Party got united then at that time ? |
| 7 | so when I got up half past six and I got shaved now at last , gon na go and get ready and pull the curtains back , oh what a of rain , I says oh I says |
| 8 | Then on leaving the table , horse-racing fan Parrott discovered that Amron , his nap of the day , had sprinted home at 10–1 at Doncaster . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Cherry had floated home at five , having wowed them at Shuff 's and danced all night . |
| 11 | By Feb. 9 sympathy strikes had broken out at higher education establishments in several cities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had looked seriously at soft-eyed young men , pierced , as often as not , by arrows . |
| 14 | By early March , oil had come ashore at various points along a strip of Saudi coastline stretching some 130 miles south of the Kuwaiti border . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I tell you , if a helicopter had come down at that customs post , there would have been no stopping me . |
| 18 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 19 | They had done so at little cost to the state or to the better-off taxpayer . |
| 20 | ‘ Pubs , ’ he had said briefly at first . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , the tree had grown randomly at lower elevations , and the nut was used for local consumption . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the cheers and the clapping had died down at last , Don Mini stood up to make a speech . |
| 24 | She was very tired : every day that week she had got up at five . |
| 25 | That being the case , the breeze she felt was probably being caused by air which had got in at low tide being forced out at high tide . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 28 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |
| 29 | I kept asking myself how the photographers had arrived there at this particular track . |
| 30 | Later he realised he had known even at six on that June morning that the time left would be short before the surge of pain crashed through his head . |