Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 3 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 4 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 8 | The man wetted his lips , looking hungrily at the second silver coin . |
| 9 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 10 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 11 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 12 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 13 | Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it . |
| 14 | Look also at the last column in Table 3.5 . |
| 15 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 16 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 17 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 18 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 19 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 20 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 21 | When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring . |
| 22 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |
| 23 | They are boring , grey-coloured , hamster-like devices that scurry away at the first sound of our Michelin Interroutes ; I suppose I would leg it too if some mad giant was riding his bike over my roof . |
| 24 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 25 | Distorted , the vanquished falls as the victor is pulled aloft at the last moment . |
| 26 | The outcome could swing dramatically at the last stage . |
| 27 | And if something else really was slipped aboard at the last moment , he thought , who knows but we may recover that , too ! |
| 28 | I 'm to walk along Crane Street from the city end , turn right at the first corner , right again at the first comer and just keep on like that . ’ |
| 29 | Turn right at the next track junction to return to the visitor centre . |
| 30 | I 've an awful feeling we should have gone right at the last junction . |