Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 2 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 3 | It moved him not at all . |
| 4 | I caught him up at last . |
| 5 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 6 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 7 | After buying me lunch in a new concrete hotel called , romantically , The Interflora , she drove me back at high Skoda speed through the centre of town — choke full out , engine howling in second gear as we skidded across wet cobblestones , clipping kerbs and narrowly avoiding the numerous potholes and dug-up sections where slow attempts were being made to repair the water mains , shattered by the minus-twenty-five February temperatures . |
| 8 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 9 | The revolution of 1399 affected him not at all . |
| 10 | ‘ There speaks the man who drove us here at such breakneck speed that I began to take pity on his poor Ferrari 's engine . |
| 11 | Richard was also pleased with the visit , and drove us home at high speed ( Bob said he touched 100 mph — ca n't say I noticed . |
| 12 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |
| 13 | David Swan joined them promptly at six-thirty . |
| 14 | Looking at his glistening face , his cheeks and forehead like apple-skins , Cameron wondered what fired him most at this moment — self-satisfaction ? or a true pleasure in poetic language ? |
| 15 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 16 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 17 | His mouth touched hers lightly at first , then he deepened the kiss with a passionate hunger that their lovemaking had failed to assuage . |
| 18 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 19 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 20 | I talked him down at one point |
| 21 | The clothes , beautiful as they were , interested her not at all . |
| 22 | Nor were matters helped by Violet gaining ten ‘ A's in her O levels , losing a stone and getting her first boyfriend , who rang her constantly at all hours of the night from Beverly Hills . |
| 23 | ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block . |
| 24 | He rang it again at seven o'clock at night to warn the gleaners that their work for that day must end . |
| 25 | Dulcie Howes first met him backstage at one of the performances , given in aid of a war charity . |
| 26 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 27 | I hardly roughed him up at all . |
| 28 | getting a bit half two , I took him up at twenty to by the time I came down it was quarter to three , he was really rubbing his eyes |
| 29 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 30 | No spark , no enjoyable crossing of swords with someone , no delight in teasing — and yet , really , she knew him not at all . |