Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better tell someone at once , ’ said Tim . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 3 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
| 4 | I 've got Mrs and I think we 'd better leave it at that . |
| 5 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 6 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 7 | To please him , she travelled , learnt languages , read all the guide books to the cities he insisted they visit , became a sexual virtuoso , developed opinions on the classics and on contemporary literature , and learnt never to voice them at the dinner table unless asked . |
| 8 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 9 | The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression . |
| 10 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 11 | He had not wanted a drama , demands , excitement , but he had somewhere wanted her at least to complain that he did not . |
| 12 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 13 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 14 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 15 | In the first pass he had already claimed one at 0938 , Uffz . |
| 16 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 17 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 18 | But even before the farmers had come up to the market someone had probably met them at the station , because each dealer had a tout — a local man . |
| 19 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 20 | The fenland winds blew through a town ‘ very fertile in alleys , and mud , and cats , and dogs … ’ but almost devoid of the friends who had increasingly sustained him at Christ 's Hospital . |
| 21 | Like Han Ch'in that time , when she had almost bettered him at archery … |
| 22 | The lady had cordially assured me at the outset that I was free " to party with anybody I liked the look of " ( this , except for the half-ounce bikini she wore , being her only hint that what we were sitting in was n't a beauty parlour or seminar room but actually a brothel . |
| 23 | Bamber Gascoigne , who had never seen him at work before his show , told me : ‘ He was absolutely wonderful in it . |
| 24 | Creggan had never seen her at the front of her cage before . |
| 25 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 26 | She insisted that she had never seen it at the design stage . |
| 27 | Had never discussed it at home . |