Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E went out at four o'clock an' 'e was all nervy . |
| 2 | She realised she was gripping the gun with two hands and had trained it on his chest , as if she expected him to leap up at any moment and lunge at her . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 4 | Oh , I did n't see him go up at all . |
| 5 | ( 116 ) I have known him to get up at three o'clock in the morning . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , from what Goibniu said , I rather think they do n't expect him to get back at all . ’ |
| 7 | I was given the option to have him put down at any time , but of course as time went on his recovery was more and more likely and my hopes got higher . |
| 8 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 9 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 10 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 11 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 12 | Well it 's Mr you see , he goes out at twelve o'clock on a Sunday and does n't get in till quarter to four . |
| 13 | Every night he goes out at half past ten , I said right . |
| 14 | Wolfgang replied indignantly that he had no time to write because he was so busy : he got up at six , had his hair dressed , and then composed until nine , after which he gave lessons until lunchtime . |
| 15 | He got up at six every morning . |
| 16 | Donald McCulloch came back from ‘ the reel of Ballechin' long after his mother , and when he got up at last next morning , the cold porridge had been thrown out to the hens . |
| 17 | He got up at last and stared out of the window at the empty road and the gravel pits , grey in the dawn light . |
| 18 | He drew back at last . |
| 19 | He want out at half-seven and told Sarah he was going to the yard to work on the books . ’ |
| 20 | Yet for all his own pleasure at tracing this evidence , Dixon could see little in his report which might have accounted for the look of extraordinary triumph he had seen on Morse 's face when he reported in at 2.45 p.m . |
| 21 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 22 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 23 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 24 | He came back at 3 p.m. and they were still going . |
| 25 | ‘ Where is Jack ? ’ asked Mr Rogers , as he came in at six o'clock . |
| 26 | And when he came in at eleven o'clock breathing beer and curry fumes , try to fight off his hot little hands . |
| 27 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 28 | He landed back at 1045 . |
| 29 | He touched down at Upper Heyford right on schedule at 1.55 a.m. local time , disturbing the sleep of the villagers beneath him as he made his final turn into the approach lights . |
| 30 | ‘ He gets up at six every morning . |