Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 2 | Sister Ellen , our SND General Moderator , visited us at one of the farm schools . |
| 3 | ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’ |
| 4 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 5 | She rang me at half past ten , I 'd forgotten all about it till phone went and I says ooh I 've lost your phone number . |
| 6 | Just re-opened it at twenty to six . |
| 7 | They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge . |
| 8 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 9 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 10 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 11 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 12 | Now I met him at one of the numerous receptions . |
| 13 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 14 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 15 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |
| 16 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 17 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll find out , ’ he laughed , and left it at that as Kitty , his wife , arrived with the tea . |
| 19 | We only had it at half past twelve . |