Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] at [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The dawg will diverge from the node at the end of the head string , and converge again at the first node of the tail string . |
| 3 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 4 | He has won titles at two different clubs — Everton and Arsenal — and to do so at a third would be unique . |
| 5 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 6 | Page had been forced into the play-off after dropping a shot at the ninth , his last hole , but edged home at the second extra hole with a par three after Maguire 's ball had landed in heavy rough at the back of the green . |
| 7 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |