Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition in the Merseyside championships at Bebington starts at 10am with the boys hammer and junior girls high jump events , and is scheduled to finish just before 6 pm . |
| 2 | The tank is a pleasure to look at even without the fish . |
| 3 | When she closed the door after letting Ellwood in , her eyes went at once to the document case . |
| 4 | As a boy at Halton I had devoured every book available on the exploits of the RFC in World War I and my mind went at once to the great deeds of Ball , Bishop , McCudden , Mannock — why not Mahaddie , I thought ? |
| 5 | Inside , a lamp hanging from the apex of the roof was still lit , and because he had n't closed his mosquito curtain , her eyes fell at once on the slender golden body of Ngo Van Loc 's wife spread-eagled beneath him on his cot . |
| 6 | Abandoning his landing party , Emden 's captain Karl von Muller made at once for the open sea and opened fire with his ten 10.5cm guns , destroying Sydney 's fire-direction system . |
| 7 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
| 8 | The residents ' meeting starts at 7pm at the Langdon Square Community Centre , Coulby Newham . |
| 9 | The meeting starts at 7.45pm in The Neighbourhood Centre , Union Street . |
| 10 | A spokesman for the island 's police said last night : ‘ The accident happened at 12.23pm on the TT course . |
| 11 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 12 | The Sheriff was of the opinion that the pursuers ' right to damages arose at once upon the default of the defenders , as every breach gave rise to a claim of damages irrespective of whether it was a breach sufficiently material to justify rescission . |
| 13 | The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars . |
| 14 | Day Three : After an overnight berth in Bad Schandau , your cruise continues at 6.00am for the cruise to Usti , arriving around 4.00pm . |
| 15 | There are two things to note at once about the remit . |
| 16 | The exhibition starts at 4pm on the day prior to the opening of the conference on Friday April 3 and will continue over the weekend . |
| 17 | I think it is time for people to look at again at the pass rates , the standard of teaching , the standard of students who actually do this Business Studies . |
| 18 | so we 've got long red faces in Gloucester … while in Oxford we 've got dark blue flags flying at half-mast from the boathouses … yes the unthinkable happened on saturday … |
| 19 | The ride begins at 10.30am outside the main gates to Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre . |
| 20 | Olivetti ( Italy ) , Bull ( France ) and STC-ICL ( Britain ) were showing modest success compared at least with the disasters earlier in the 1980S . |
| 21 | Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion . |
| 22 | The oak door yielded at once to the key . |
| 23 | The Saturday performance begins at 7.30pm with The Psalms , and tickets , priced at £3.50 , will be available at the door . |
| 24 | Walk starts at 2pm at the maypole in Coniston . |
| 25 | The Poles hoped at least for the award of Danzig , the nearby town of Elbing , the Vistula delta and the tiny republic of Memel . |
| 26 | In the other two scenes , what is involved is not much more than a relatively conventional dramatic mechanism : in the Sunday Morning scene ( Act Two , scene one ) the music in church provides a kind of running commentary to the developing quarrel between Ellen and Peter ( in the manner of countless 19th-century operas from Faust to Werther ) , while the barn dance of Act Three similarly updates an ironic tradition stretching at least from The Marriage of Figaro to Wozzeck . |
| 27 | Within a week of the outbreak of war the co-operation of the National Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was sought over the manning of merchant vessels requisitioned or chartered by the Admiralty and an agreement arrived at jointly with the Board of Trade . |
| 28 | My mother softened at once at the words ‘ Do you remember … ? ’ when they referred to her youth and not to her knowledge . |
| 29 | The Law graduate who has gained full exemption proceeds at once to the Final ; this requires attendance for nine months at one of the law schools recognised by the Law Society for this purpose . |