Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will make a report to me daily at the first hour of night . |
| 2 | It can , none the less , cut out many of the worst frustrations : material that takes hours to trace , is never found , or is unavailable at the right time ; teacher-made material that takes too long , is botched in process or inexpertly designed ; equipment that does n't work , or works badly , or is preempted by someone else at the crucial moment ; timetables that do n't , when it comes to the point , allow sufficient flexibility ; help that one feels ought to be available but somehow never is . |
| 3 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 4 | She seemed to live by an instinct which drew her strongly and on the whole accurately towards such manifestations , such hints and echoes of a grander world , and which yet at the same time could not approve them . |
| 5 | THWAITE hides itself away at the upper end of Swaledale as though it were trying to shelter from the rush and madness of twentieth-century life , and I ca n't say that I blame it . |
| 6 | ‘ Emilia , dearest , do you imagine I could abandon you now at the very moment I have longed for ? |
| 7 | A WEAK US economy reflected itself strongly at the second Museum of Flight Auction at Santa Monica on October 5 & 6 . |
| 8 | Canary Wharf , the tallest building in Europe , fails to shape itself adequately at the fiftieth storey and is dull as a consequence . |
| 9 | Acceptance of the separate stages of rehearsal , drafting , revision , editing and publishing as normal practice for writers encourages children with special needs to express their ideas in writing more confidently than was possible when children were expected to get everything right at the first attempt . |
| 10 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 11 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 12 | Any explanation requires description , and it is difficult , or perhaps impossible , to describe something without at the same time explaining it . |
| 13 | For example , an adult can dress herself or eat a meal and chat about something else at the same time , because these routines have become automatic habits . |
| 14 | One person 's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time . |
| 15 | " How strange it is , " mused Fleury , feeling the futility of everything yet at the same time enjoying the feeling , " that these millions of wings , with all their wonderful machinery of nerves and muscles , should be made to serve the purpose of a single flight . |
| 16 | The median age divides the women into two equal size groups ; one half of the women first married ( or had a first birth ) at a younger and one half at an older age . |
| 17 | Please do not hesitate to contact me here at the above number if you have any other queries or concerns . |
| 18 | He told her so at the very end . |
| 19 | He nearly rang Fred up , but he would be seeing him tomorrow at the first night . |
| 20 | In 1979 he voted for Margaret Thatcher , backing her again at the last election after a switch to the SDP in 1983 . |
| 21 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 22 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
| 23 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 24 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 25 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 26 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 27 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |
| 28 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 29 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 30 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |