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Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] at [num] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well in the fifties , forty years of age was hugely old , I mean my dad at forty when I remember back was like a really old man at forty in those days .
2	And she had to go out , but no Bernard now you forgot this bit here , she was , er house , the decorators were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning !
3	They were painting her house at three o'clock in the morning right , and Margot
4	Peter was able to take his test a year earlier than most because the law allows disabled people to pass their test at 16 .
5	There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible .
6	At the age of 23 in 1938 he captained his country at one game and , more surprisingly , his county , Warwickshire in the other .
7	‘ He phoned his office at nine to cancel all appointments .
8	Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage .
9	Tim Clifton starts his day at six o'clock in the morning .
10	I tried his office at four o'clock and then his house at five , without success .
11	had , but he said it were twenty in the end and then he changed his mind at twenty five so
12	Because when people come to catch our train at twenty five to five i i it 's announcing us that train .
13	they just accept us for what we are , they know that we 're not gon na upset their lifestyle , we 're not gon na start raiding their place at six in the morning .
14	As this was the first item on the agenda , the Prime Minister made her appearance at ten thirty-three , immediately after the Chairman had made his announcement .
15	Actually she lights her torch at one of the candles in the church and somebody runs her up here in a car while she holds the torch out of the window .
16	He 's got a Metro at the moment they 're driving around in , she drives , she passed her test at sixty eight .
17	I wait my Happiness at three
18	The Collector waited until he estimated their distance at two hundred yards and shouted : " Fire ! "
19	If you cut her hair at eleven she said
20	The section on frigates and destroyers put their number at 65 .
21	Pakistan had secured their position at 123 for the loss of Ramiz , who was bowled by a giant breakdown down the slope from DeFreitas .
22	Faced , as far as he can see , with a future of minimum inflow and maximum outflow , he has decided to sell his gallery at 22 Cork Street as an art object .
23	I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away .
24	There was a similar result in Campbell ( decd ) v Jeffey [ 1984 ] CLY 2296 where the defendant and his passenger drank six pints of beer each in one another 's company at lunchtime and two further pints each after the defendant had collected his passenger at 9.30 pm that day .
25	But two lorry drivers passing the scene described Mrs Chandler 's attacker as slightly smaller than her and estimated his height at five feet eight or nine inches .
26	Morse looked at his watch : just after half-past six — and Downes would be meeting his wife at seven o'clock .
27	I shall run my bath at seven twenty-five precisely , she decided , and I wo n't even hear him when he calls .
28	An estate agent has valued their home at seventy thousand pounds .
29	She guessed her age at 14 or 15 .
30	Research on field independence in a wide sample of people has shown that it reaches its peak at fifteen years of age , remains on a plateau until the mid-thirties and thereafter declines .