Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help .
2 At the roundabout turn left onto the by-pass and right at the next round-about signposted Horspath .
3 In the case of a board for an islands area or division of an islands area , the members were to be elected at a meeting of the islands council to be held between May 16 , 1977. and June 30 , 1977 , and thereafter at the first meeting of the council after every ordinary election .
4 ‘ Stair has his spyes in every quarter and even at the first posts on the several roads , ’ complained one irate conspirator , but often their work was easy for , as Bolingbroke observed , the most secret plans were a subject of gossip ‘ among women over their tea ’ .
5 Perhaps it decided to stay put and I would n't notice it was there and maybe at the last second it decided it would run for it !
6 They have irresponsibly encouraged people to withhold payment , and then at the eleventh hour they have made payments , leaving those poorer people who were foolish enough to follow their appalling example to face the consequences of now owing a lump sum .
7 She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk .
8 She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again !
9 But not at the first interview .
10 Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way .
11 ‘ We talked about it , but then at the last minute we thought of the Bahamas .
12 But then at the last moment I drifted wide .
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