Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [coord] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities became worried about the threat to public order and decided at last to act against both fascist paramilitary provocation and anti-fascist counter-violence , a decision influenced by deputations to the Home Secretary from the London Labour party and the Manchester watch committee . |
| 2 | I have been taking Woodworker now for some 10 years and have at last been inspired to write a letter replying to that of David Thomas in the December issue . |
| 3 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 4 | The railway company always intended to lease the Euston as a first-class hotel but tried at first to run the Victoria itself . |
| 5 | Not only madrigals but canzonette and balletti , under anglicized names , were modelled sometimes all too closely on Italian originals and printing at last gave them to the public . |
| 6 | PRIZE PAIR : Nigel with the borrowed gown and Brix at last year 's ceremony |
| 7 | There was a special edge to this match because they had beaten us easily in each of our past five encounters and had at first declined a fixture this year . |
| 8 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |