Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll change all that when we 're married , ’ Naylor assured her , and her heartbeats raced an erratic rhythm at just the very thought of being married to him . |
| 2 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 3 | However , recent CBI figures show UK investment at below the German level ; I suspect high interest rates are a major deterrent . |
| 4 | He changed gear at precisely the wrong moment and the car bucked and complained . |
| 5 | When the dye molecules are dissolved in another solid , transparent host material , they do not all absorb light at quite the same frequency . |
| 6 | The boughs grow out from the trunk at nearly the same angle throughout the life of the tree and the sapling can be regarded as a geometrical model of the fully grown tree . |
| 7 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 8 | The grenade left his grip at almost the same moment as another beam struck him full across the carapace , cracking it . |
| 9 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 10 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 11 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 12 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 13 | A large group in the opposite corner had erupted into laughter at just the right moment , to mask the sound of her action , however , and even those who had seen and heard were simply hiding slightly shocked and curious smiles behind polite hands and pretending to go on with their talk . |
| 14 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 15 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 16 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 17 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 18 | He also warned that a slowdown in money supply growth this summer could threaten the recovery at just the wrong moment . |
| 19 | If you pay tax at above the basic rate , there will be some additional tax to be paid . |
| 20 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 21 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 22 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 23 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 24 | The first two left the ground at almost the same instant and climbed easily with the help of the headwind . |
| 25 | Together , Perry and Crilly committed endearing and devilish acts ; climbing to the ceiling of the asylum chapel to ring the chapel bell at precisely the wrong time , loitering upon the roof of the geriatric ward in pursuit of fat blue-winged pigeons , throwing craps in front of the Sinn Fein bookshop . |
| 26 | It gave us a lift at just the right time . |
| 27 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 28 | And normal adult volunteers , given growth hormone derived from DNA at twice the normal dose , have developed raised blood-sugar levels . |
| 29 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 30 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |