Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 2 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 3 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 4 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 5 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 6 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 7 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 8 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 9 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 10 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
| 11 | Well , my interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 12 | My interest in allegory really began at quite a different point . |
| 13 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 14 | Although both the USSR and Somalia downplayed the Soviet presence in Berbera , there existed at least a long-range communications station for submarines at Berbera , which formed part of the Soviet nuclear strategic infrastructure . |
| 15 | The timing of these changes and the details of the structures adopted varied between the countries comprising the United Kingdom , but ‘ as a service provider , local government in Scotland developed at broadly the same pace as local government in England and Wales ’ ( Page 1983:43 ; cf. foster et al. |
| 16 | Towards the end of the century the bourgeoisie discovered at least a temporary formula for combining getting and spending , cushioned by the acquisitions of the past . |
| 17 | They needed at least a two goal win to reach the international stages of the competition . |
| 18 | A gigantic undertaking like the invasion of Europe needed at least a few days of good weather to give it a chance , and we appeared to be settled into a period of wind , rain and low cloud . |
| 19 | Fascinating in the way it hinted at both a deep sensuality and fastidious restraint , his mouth twisted . |
| 20 | Cruzate 's more pessimistic view was less well received that Penzias ' more technically exciting world , but represented at least a small dose of reality into some technical ivory towers . |
| 21 | Yet it also represented at least a first step towards an institutional framework for dialogue between State and commoners . |
| 22 | Most managed at least a half day each week . |
| 23 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |
| 24 | Vega-built B–17G N3509G had undergone an intensive maintenance and restoration programme at World Jet Inc in Florida and looked at least a million dollars , but the bidding slowed at $900,000 . |
| 25 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 26 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 27 | It was Vico , in his New Science ( 1725–44 ) , who gave at once a new confidence and a particular direction to social thought , in his argument that ‘ the world of civil society has certainly been made by men ’ and that this ‘ since men had made it they could hope to know ’ . |
| 28 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 29 | I would want someone that was on my wavelength , roughly my age , preferably a supporter , and I would n't sign anything until I had at least a serious gentleman 's agreement that nothing could be issued without the artist 's agreement . |
| 30 | The famously awful Labour manifesto of 1983 had at least a certain integrity . |