Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 2 | Elsie , who lived with us at that time , just sat with tears streaming down her face . |
| 3 | Man , she hardly registered with me at all . ’ |
| 4 | Never never heard from her at all since then . |
| 5 | A guy in a bell-bottomed jumpsuit flew by me at some speed and struck the sidewalk . |
| 6 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 7 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 8 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 9 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
| 10 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 11 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 12 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 13 | But whatever she was up to — and it was something — she spent days ticking and marking the party guest list , a thick , creamy piece of paper she kept with her at all times . |
| 14 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 15 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 16 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 17 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 18 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 19 | In the past , he had only ever spoken well of his mother , when he spoke of her at all . |
| 20 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 21 | Stifling the pang of uncivilised jealousy that shot through her at that thought , Folly eased herself into the driver 's seat and slammed the door . |
| 22 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 23 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 24 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |