Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With me in the studio is journalist , Dorothy Grace Elder who sixteen months ago weighed in at fourteen and a half and was perfectly happy with it . |
| 2 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 3 | Yeah and you er I ov I overslept , well I woke up at five and normally I think if I go to sleep now and I sort of get myself awake but today I must of turned over |
| 4 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 5 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 6 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 7 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 8 | Well , that Arthur turned up at last and the vicar married them , but afterwards me sister let Arthur know just 'ow she felt , she chucked the whole weddin' cake at 'im , then 'er bokey an' then a full bottle of port . |
| 9 | We got up at eight and I |
| 10 | The next day , which was the Friday , O did n't work and he did n't eat ; he woke up late , stayed in bed until it was dark , got up at nine and dressed in his white shirt just like always and he went to The Bar looking for his heart 's desire one very last time , and that was the night that he met Boy . |
| 11 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 12 | we got back at five and oh dear me , there they were . |
| 13 | It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning . |
| 14 | That was the dose , a and I want to stress also that I did n't start off at eighty milligrams , I started off at two and half which I think is important and |
| 15 | Paul perked up at that and , in any case , Herr Nordern shifted the topic . |
| 16 | Hilda , deep in her reading , nevertheless perked up at this and shot a sharp glance in Mr Kronweiser 's direction . |
| 17 | The offering for staff at Evertidy Furniture in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , worked out at less than half a pub measure each . |
| 18 | Elaine tripped in at four-thirty and George was well and truly asleep . |
| 19 | Yeah , he 's up there sound-o , and he was up this way , he went up at one and got up about ten minutes after this one , so |
| 20 | An ironical cheer went up at this and we settled down for the night . |
| 21 | You went to school at nine o'clock , you came home at twelve , you went back at two and you came home at half past four . |
| 22 | We kicked off at eleven and went on till three and there were I think six people stuffing er in the course of the day Bob Andy Mark and myself and Chris . |