Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not by someone else stepping in at the last moment . |
| 2 | Three times through the winter , Cascade had been within days of being fully formed , only to fall down at the last minute . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ I 'm going to pull in at the next layby . |
| 4 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 5 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 6 | ‘ But my advice is not to panic and to wait and see how many tickets can be picked up at the last minute . ’ |
| 7 | Yet , when the think-tank was wound up at the first Cabinet meeting after the 1983 general election , not a single minister spoke up in its defence . |
| 8 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 9 | In another case we have managed to eliminate the first galley stage completely The first setting is now carried out at the first page proof stage and even this will save around £50,000 per year — more than the cost of the entire system . |
| 10 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 11 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 12 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 13 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 14 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 15 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 16 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 17 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 18 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 19 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 20 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 21 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 22 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 23 | In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia . |
| 24 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 25 | He spins round at the third barrel . |
| 26 | The man wetted his lips , looking hungrily at the second silver coin . |
| 27 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 28 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 29 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 30 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |