Example sentences of "[adv prt] at the [num ord] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 2 | ‘ We managed to shepherd five down at the second attempt but one straggler broke free . |
| 3 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 4 | I 've got it I 've got it at home I can bring it in at the next meeting or whatever . |
| 5 | Every September we have the small ad hoc Cabinet committee known as the ‘ Star Chamber ’ [ MISC 62 ] in which Lord Whitelaw sits down and tries to bang heads together , and then the Prime Minister comes in at the last minute and bangs heads together even more . |
| 6 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 7 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 8 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 9 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 10 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 11 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 12 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 13 | His trousers bunch round his ankles again , then catch round his boots and disappear over the edge of the chimney , kicking up at the last moment and hitting the grating ; the branch slips and the grating slams down . |
| 14 | After several more sessions out in the country , Hoomey got the hand of it , and learned that , even if he could n't stop , he could steer , and that sitting on Bones 's enormous flights through the atmosphere was comparatively easy once you got used to it , far easier than poor Jazz 's problem of trying to stay aboard when Spot , cantering quite easily towards the jump , put his anchors out at the last minute and stopped dead . |
| 15 | Mostly , crises arise when a guest pulls out at the last minute and we 're urgently looking for a replacement — sometimes we 've had just a matter of hours . |
| 16 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 17 | In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia . |
| 18 | I like certain things ragged right for example , or fairly simple pages , but erm you can look back at the sixteenth century and find extremely simple pages , you know it 's not a modern idea and the thing is that most of the eddies and currents of popular graphic design are little stylistic exclusions that never go anywhere . |