Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 2 | They swore that they had turned her down at first , but that she had behaved in such a bold manner — sitting on their laps , kissing them and fingering her body — that they could not hold back any longer . |
| 3 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 4 | I have written it out at this length for you , the teacher . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's all in the past , there I 've said it now at last . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He said ‘ it 's not bad , is it ’ , but I have seen it before at different levels and I am not looking at it too much at this stage . |
| 7 | He knew I needed the money and he knew he 'd got me for for a he 'd have got me up at six o'clock in the morning if he 'd have needed me . |
| 8 | And if he 'd have needed me at six he 'd have got me up at five . |
| 9 | ‘ The Labour Party has n't thought it through at all , ’ says Richard Whitfield of the National Family Trust . |
| 10 | While I 've been to er while I 've been shopping I have n't had it on at all . |
| 11 | She had played a part that was alien to her nature and she had not played it well at all . |
| 12 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 13 | She spent a long time near the gate these days , but the snow had driven her indoors at last . |
| 14 | They had n't known her well at all , but for some inexplicable reason they seemed to take charge of the situation and to deal with it in a totally intuitive way . |
| 15 | It had n't really involved her personally at all . |
| 16 | ‘ Certainly smuggling is monstrous and iniquitous , ’ replied the Mayor smoothly , ‘ and we are indeed fortunate to have stamped it out at last . |
| 17 | yeah I 've never touched ours much at all |
| 18 | ‘ I had put it down at this spot and was about to discover , ’ he said . |
| 19 | She had taken it well at first herself , somehow understanding that Fernando and Maria Luisa had drawn comfort from each other . |