Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But although I chose it virtually at random , this does not make it ‘ typical ’ , any more than the horrific Bihar gaol described by Sinha ( 1978 ) in which 143 people had died within three years . |
| 32 | He took it seriously at first , affronted that anyone could say anything about anyone so close to him , but before very long , he saw the funny side . |
| 33 | A mind stretcher it was n't but an agreeable evening in the theatre it undoubtedly was , and harmed us not at all . |
| 34 | erm But they were disappointed when John Thorn equalised after another five minutes and he put them ahead at half time by two one . |
| 35 | Well he had this environment mental officer , they they in inaugurated him then at this meeting meeting when erm the thing you handed over |
| 36 | He did it carefully at first , only a handful at a time , saving every shilling made . |
| 37 | Did he not at that time , on the brink of collapse , feel something sustaining him , feeding him , encouraging him ? |
| 38 | ‘ Why , I think it 's a splendid idea ! ’ cried Beegee , when Angela put it forward at Pow-wow . |
| 39 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 40 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 41 | The huge fire roaring in the hall beyond the small entrance chamber warmed her not at all . |
| 42 | from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ? |
| 43 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 44 | Apparently this one and only brush with city life impressed him not at all . |
| 45 | Picked him up at Imperial College . |
| 46 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 47 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |