Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 2 | The basic recipe is a reduction of white wine and brown fond de veau lié with a julienne of gherkins and mustard stirred in at the last moment . |
| 3 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 4 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 5 | Once again he blasted out at the first attempt , reeling back amid a cloud of sand and covering his eyes . |
| 6 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 7 | It was one of those nights for Swindon … player manager Glenn Hoddle pulled a muscle in the kick-in and dropped out at the last minute … and with David Kerslake having gone to Leeds the defence looked a little shaky … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 12 | Everyone turned up at the 42nd Street Theatre that night to see Noreen make her New York debut . |
| 13 | Graham Fowler made it a double when he teamed up at the last minute with Chris Schaefer from Tennis World and in see-saw men 's double final the Tennis World pair of Ben O'Connor and Peter Ford . |
| 14 | Make sure you get a copy of the initial ( and any supplementary ) reading list(s) handed out at the first meeting with your class teachers . |
| 15 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 16 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 17 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 18 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 19 | Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering . |
| 20 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 21 | Mrs McIntosh , she knew , had had a young man who pulled out at the last minute ; she might take him in . |
| 22 | In the event Lin and Chiang pulled out at the last moment , prompting speculation that Lee had made a deal with the conservatives over the reform programme or over Cabinet posts . |
| 23 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 24 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 25 | She nearly dropped the mug but her brain took over at the last instant . |
| 26 | Boss David McErlain blames poor summer business and a vital sell-off deal that fell through at the last minute for this latest crisis . |
| 27 | The interview fell through at the last minute … |
| 28 | But it all fell through at the last moment . |
| 29 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 30 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |