Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |
| 2 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 3 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |
| 4 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 5 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 6 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether you 've come across her at all . |
| 8 | There are also two attractive houses designed by him at 5/466 and 7/467 . |
| 9 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 10 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 11 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 12 | They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it . |
| 13 | I had n't heard of it at all , do n't know what |
| 14 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 15 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 16 | The only charge that can be made against you at this moment is of theft from our house , however that may be read hereafter . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’ |
| 18 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 19 | Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective . |
| 20 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
| 21 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 22 | have you thought about it at all ? |
| 23 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
| 24 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 25 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 26 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 27 | As a result , he was taken completely by surprise when twelve stone of lean muscle powered into him at snake-like speed and wrenched the gun aside , the shot slamming into a very surprised Froebe , who staggered back , the impact of his body cracking one of the windows . |
| 28 | Apart from a silver cup sent by Sir Hans Sloane in 1742 , with which John Bartram was ‘ well pleased that thy name is engraved upon it at large , so that when my friends drink out of it , they may see who was my benefactor ’ and a gold medal from a Society of Gentlemen in Edinburgh , tangible appreciation was slow to cross the Atlantic . |
| 29 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
| 30 | I have dwelt on it at some length because I believe the opposite to be the case . |