Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 2 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 3 | After he 'd left her at Wild Tor , they would never see each other again . |
| 4 | You must have given the driver some bribe , Edward , I do n't know how he managed to help me at all , he was terrified of being caught . ’ |
| 5 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 6 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 7 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 8 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 9 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 10 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 11 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 12 | In short , he had identified himself at last with the spirit of the times . |
| 13 | And he was never quite sure why he had married her at all . ’ |
| 14 | What I still could n't understand was why he wanted to see me at all . |
| 15 | ‘ He wanted to see us at four-thirty . ’ |