Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella began to speak at exactly the same moment that Pumlumon began to intone the Draoicht Suan . |
| 2 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 3 | Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme . |
| 4 | Some outlandish schemes did reach at least the experimental stage , such as catching a landing aircraft in a glorified tennis net , strung between two posts . |
| 5 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 6 | The announcement about dinner being served , Henry observed with approval , had come at just the right length of time after the sherry had been drunk . |
| 7 | Finally , for all the majesty of his presidential rule , de Gaulle himself had undergone at least a partial " desanctification " in the years after 1962 . |
| 8 | That was an essential b eventually that was taken away , but the building trade still believed if a building firm wanted men , they had to have at least a thirty two hour guarantee , which is at present still in operation . |
| 9 | Inevitably , I saw the prison through the eyes of a western visitor , but after three months in India I had acquired at least a superficial understanding of the country and its penal philosophy . |
| 10 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |