Example sentences of "[adv] at [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to work in shifts — four hours on and four off — which was quite exhausting , especially at 4am in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | Blueboy 's songs , all clocking in at well below the boredom threshold , are a naively affecting clutch of simple , sparse tunes , engagingly ramshackle and , except for a nostalgic over-employment of the jingle-jangle pedal , refreshingly unreliant on an arsenal of guitar effects . |
| 3 | He dialled Essex and , the gods relenting , got through at once to the man he wanted . |
| 4 | A village hall committee meeting takes place tonight at 7.30pm in the village hall . |
| 5 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 6 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 7 | He , like other Darwinian evolutionists , was strongly opposed to the idea of the spontaneous generation of life from inorganic matter , though no doubt it must have happened once at least in the past . |
| 8 | All this can be put on a quantitative basis and doing so results in the celebrated condition written unc that is , the product of the uncertainties in position and momentum is always at least of the order of magnitude of Planck 's constant . |
| 9 | Heath was attempting to break with the politics of accommodation , the ‘ triangular system ’ of government/union/employer consultation which had been growing up at least since the war . |
| 10 | Unwilling to follow Merleau-Ponty by dropping the second in favour of the first , Sartre argued that it was possible for man to be both at once through the movement of praxis , that is intentional actions which produce material effects . |
| 11 | That is part at least of the secret of his continuing appeal . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 13 | To attempt to confine the disqualification to ‘ true ’ episcopal ordination takes the argument back at least to the Reformation and perhaps to St. Peter . |
| 14 | The roots of Serbian nationalism go back at least to the Empire of Stevan Dušan in the fourteenth century . |
| 15 | The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy . |
| 16 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 17 | With the girl 's clothes we should be able to trace her back at least to the point at which she was dropped during the night — or I hope so , after all that rain . |
| 18 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 19 | Philip sailed but was forced to turn back almost at once by the weather . |
| 20 | The so-called ‘ Loony Left ’ , much invoked before the general election of June 1987 , was in some places responsible if not for vagaries in the total school curriculum , then at least for the expenditure of scarce resources on teachers , and publications , dealing with subjects dear to their hearts , like racism , sexism , and peace-studies , unpopular with government and with many parents . |
| 21 | Predictably serious negotiations ensued , if not for peace then at least for the ransom of King John ; but several years of intermittent diplomacy and warfare passed before a treaty was concluded at Brétigny in 1360 and confirmed at Calais in 1361 . |
| 22 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 23 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 24 | ‘ Lawrie immediately contacted Manchester United to make sure Pallister was okay and was told to check again at 6.30pm after the match . |
| 25 | The ‘ Musical Gathering ’ in 1882 took place at 7am and again at 2.30pm on the cricket field . |
| 26 | For , if in variable ways , the new technologies of cinema , sound broadcasting , sound discs and cassettes , television , video cassettes and tape recorders all embody systems of access which are direct at least in the sense that they are culturally available within normal social development , without any form of selective cultural training . |
| 27 | GUIL : A weaker man might be moved to re-examine his faith , if in nothing else at least in the law of probability . |
| 28 | The ducks will be putting their best beak forward at 3pm in the charity dash , which will raise money for Cancer Research . |
| 29 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |