Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] 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 | I caught him up at last . |
| 3 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | ‘ I expected you in at 5 for your tea . |
| 7 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 8 | They rang me up at eight o'clock one morning to be there |
| 9 | He rang me up at nine o'clock . |
| 10 | I talked him down at one point |
| 11 | ‘ We eventually tracked her down at this dreadful apartment block . |
| 12 | He admitted : ‘ Lawrie McMenemy took me off at half- time in Spain after I 'd been booked . |
| 13 | I hardly roughed him up at all . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 16 | But they 're all going to wonder why I dragged you along at this time of night . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Picked him up at Imperial College . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |