Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |
| 2 | Yet his horizons were quickly widened to include the nearby town of Dorchester where he attended day school , and where at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a local architect , despite his academic interests . |
| 3 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 4 | From the time of the early modernists ( Schoenberg and others ) , only the radical avant-garde has resisted this situation , and that at the price of social isolation and deliberate incomprehensibility : the only way left to refuse the market . |
| 5 | The committee proposed that a life should be placed on nonconforming uses and that at the expiration of that life the use should be brought to an end without compensation . |
| 6 | ‘ Take my kids to sea for two weeks , just two weeks , and if at the end of those two weeks you really believe that the cruise-cure wo n't work , or if you 're convinced that you 're the wrong guy for the job , then send the twins home . |
| 7 | survivor 's , we will be with er a victim all the way through the enquiry and if at the end of that enquiry they will also be given details of the criminal injury 's compensation board . |
| 8 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 9 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 10 | In October 1939 he caught a feverish cold ; he was altogether melancholy and restless , and when at the end of the year he was asked to make a radio broadcast , he refused because he could think of nothing to say . |
| 11 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 12 | And as at the end of nineteen ninety one , we have almost two hundred million investment in the U K. |
| 13 | for me meeting with Jim was to say , yes , that 's fine but if at the end of the day we have to train down to a certain level within our group , there 's no way can we afford five man-days of lost fees and fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 14 | Let's look not so much at the left right divide , but but at the tone of the party . |
| 15 | Yeah but but at the end of the day how 's that person gon na learn . |
| 16 | He shuddered a little , but whether at the memory of this vomiting by the water 's edge or of something even uglier Wexford could not tell . |
| 17 | These are three simple and fairly obvious examples of protective devices with a topic that did not of itself require careful handling , but when at the end of the lesson they chose to extend their interest in hospitals in the future to ‘ finding a cure for cancer ’ quite suddenly the subject-matter has become more of a delicate one , with some taboos attached for both the pupils and the adults watching the lesson . |
| 18 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |