Example sentences of "she [vb past] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an old lady in it , but she quit at five to eight . |
| 2 | She beamed at two scruffy little girls who were pushing a doll 's pram , grotesquely shod in their mother 's high-heeled shoes . |
| 3 | And so she rose at six and bathed , tapped on Lucy 's door at seven , to a clear ringing ‘ Come in ! ’ |
| 4 | She demonstrated at five group stores in the Osaka region throughout October . |
| 5 | ‘ Which she received at twenty to nine , when she was dressing for her wedding ? ’ |
| 6 | While they talked she glanced at three photographs framed on a shelf . |
| 7 | And so to Ascot , where she started at 11–4 on to beat just four opponents for the two-and-a-half-mile marathon . |
| 8 | As a four-year-old she won all her four races , including the Coronation Cup , the Champion Stakes and the Jockey Club Cup ; in her other race she started at 55–1 on to defeat a solitary opponent . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 10 | Fuck it , she thought at five , maybe I just wo n't go home . |
| 11 | she died at sixty , bless her . |
| 12 | Two heart attacks later , she died at one P M. |
| 13 | Byron had agreed to keep her with him until she was seven ; instead , he put her in a convent where she died at five . |
| 14 | His daughter Jane had been born in the year they settled in Ambleside , 1800 , and had been his constant companion ; she died at 28 and was buried beside her father and brother William . |
| 15 | We shall tell the full story of Charles Frederick Titford in due course ; enough for now to say that he would be outlived by his widowed mother , who was 80 when she died at 24 Warner Street , Lower Holloway , on 4 March 1902 , ‘ Widow of Benjamin Titford , Commercial clerk ’ . |
| 16 | She died at eighty-four in an old people 's home after having a stroke . |
| 17 | She looked at 100 village plans and assessed them as regular or partly regular . |
| 18 | She looked at one of these pictures now , and smiled at it . |
| 19 | She felt at one level that this was no worse than she deserved . |
| 20 | She paused at one of the stalls to inspect some tablecloths , beautifully made in Malta weave and Maltese lace . |
| 21 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know , David , ’ she said at one moment when they had finished their pasta . |
| 23 | ‘ My father would have wanted music with it , ’ she said at one point . |
| 24 | She married at eighteen . |
| 25 | But no , his daughter had always been a model of sobriety , good works and even chastity ( a virgin when she married at nineteen . |
| 26 | After she left at 16 she got a job in a pub but became interested in nursing as a career , being taken on as a trainee student nurse three years later . |
| 27 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 28 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 29 | My mother worked all her life and she retired at eighty three which is not bad going . |