Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 2 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 3 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 4 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 5 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 6 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 8 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 9 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |
| 10 | She looked at him at last , with such obvious disgust that de Raimes ’ face darkened . |
| 11 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |