Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt like you at first , then I realised what it meant . |
| 2 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 3 | I am hallucinating , I said to myself at first : the strain has affected my mind . |
| 4 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 5 | She looked at him at last , with such obvious disgust that de Raimes ’ face darkened . |
| 6 | You come to us at First National Bank for a loan . |
| 7 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 8 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 9 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 10 | Was he running for it at last ? |
| 11 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |