Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found them at last . |
| 2 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
| 3 | I helped her at first but it was a mistake . ’ |
| 4 | I admired her at first , wanting to help the slaves . |
| 5 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 6 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 7 | I liked him at first , but … ’ |
| 8 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |
| 10 | Now let us explore what lies behind the contemporary appearance of quite another group of towns : towns which reveal nothing at first sight of their secret , physical history , and which indeed seem to have little or nothing in common as one looks at them and around their streets . |
| 11 | ‘ It was her beauty which attracted me at first , ’ said Mr Jefferson , who was a produce buyer for NAFFI for more than 37 years . |
| 12 | Several people were listening but nobody said anything at first . |
| 13 | ‘ She stirred herself at last and wrote , ’ he said as he handed Rose the letter . |
| 14 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 15 | But she hated it at first . |
| 16 | She heard me at last . |
| 17 | She saw him at last , but she did n't signal back , she clutched her bag and froze , staring , and the man beside her turned round . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's lovely , ’ she answered him at last , in a brisk , matter-of-fact tone that concealed , she hoped , all that she was feeling . |
| 19 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 20 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 21 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 22 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 23 | Aware only of the bumping of her heart and the pressuring of his mouth on hers even as he carried her through interminable pathways to the journey 's end , Sarella felt him lower her at last on to his bed . |
| 24 | All this was owned by the d'Urbervilles , or the Stoke-d'Urbervilles as they called themselves at first . |
| 25 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 26 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 27 | He stirred himself at last and looked round , to find one even more worn out with weariness than himself . |
| 28 | Last night we had a phone call , oh it frightened me at first actually , I answered the phone |
| 29 | ‘ I was n't even sure he liked me at first . ’ |
| 30 | They look like rust — it fooled me at first . |