Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan reached up to hand Jamie his pint and I took mine , putting the money down at the same time . |
| 2 | Smith , a TA corporal in 10 Para and Rennie , a TA sergeant in 15 Para , then returned to Camp Three to pick up extra rope and equipment to push the route further at the next opportunity . |
| 3 | Say w when we would used to bring the the stock in at the Menai Bridge Fair , that was the twenty fourth of October . |
| 4 | I made a booking for erm , two doubles and two singles for the seventh and eighth you 've sent me the confirmation out at the non-delegate price . |
| 5 | Ivo drew the car up at the front door , she pinned her hopes , rather desperately , she owned , on one very big , important fact . |
| 6 | Variations across London often reflected the differential performance of the parties there at the last general election , and may well portend trends for the next . |
| 7 | Among those admiring the portrait yesterday at the Royal Society of Musicians was Sir Yehudi Menuhin , the septuagenarian fiddler . |
| 8 | He looked round the room slowly at the other eleven council members . |
| 9 | A partial parasite , mistletoe relies on birds such as thrushes eating its oily berries and dropping the seeds out at the other end on to the branches of trees where they perch . |
| 10 | With regard to octave combinations , flute or oboe double the violas well at the higher octave , and bassoon at the lower octave , but opportunities of using these are rather rare , as the violas are of course chiefly used to supply inner parts either in the nature of harmonic filling up , or countermelodies in which octave doubling would upset the harmonic scheme . |
| 11 | The reason is that at slow speeds it moves both legs on the same side of the body forward at the same time , first one side and then the other . |
| 12 | A second date was set for last Monday , when Mr Connelly was again told of the cancellation only at the last minute . |
| 13 | Bevan put the point forcefully at the 1937 Labour Party Conference : |
| 14 | So that 's the difference perhaps at the political and miliary level , what are the differences perhaps at a more social level ? |
| 15 | Labour leader John Smith demanded a proper programme of ACTION to boost the economy — and laid the blame for the crisis firmly at the Prime Minister 's door . |
| 16 | He knew that Siward , finally , might have just enough extra power to prevail , upon which his men had their orders : to give way ; to appear to fly ; to cross the Forth somehow at the wide ford , having got rid of the bridge . |
| 17 | The idea is that if the seller can sell the goods elsewhere at the same or a higher price than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller has lost nothing , in which case he will receive only nominal damages . |
| 18 | She had n't been privy to the goings on at the opposite end of the table , but she had a distinct , almost tactile memory of the girl fleeing , the usual calm repose of her features fractured . |
| 19 | From the resulting corner , Paul Simpson 's corner , Andy Melville flicked the ball on at the near post , Martin Foyle 's header hit the under side of the bar and bounced away . |
| 20 | In 63 minutes Burrows floated over a free and Hunter was there to nod the ball home at the near post . |
| 21 | Micky Bennett 's free-kick was flicked on by Gary Blissett and Allon steered the ball in at the far post . |
| 22 | Who else but the irrepressible Cowan who knocked the ball in at the far post after an excellent build-up involving Gregg Davidson , Peter Murray , Russell and Sandy Fraser who supplied the final pass . |
| 23 | While there was nothing extraordinary about the goal itself , Chapman turning the ball in at the near post after Clough had driven an indirect free-kick low through a crowd of players , the circumstances in which the kick had been given were a little odd and left Everton looking apoplectic . |
| 24 | Fiona Lee made it 2–2 when she squeezed the ball in at the near post , but Shorney restored Slough 's advantage with her second penalty after Crook had stopped the ball illegally . |
| 25 | I heard Mr Loveitt say summat like it with his own lips , and the landlord down at the Seven Stars . ’ |
| 26 | To do this properly you need to hold the strings down at the first fret and measure from the top of the pickup polepiece to the underside of the strings . |
| 27 | The panel noted " direct and circumstantial evidence " that Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , then Commander of the Air Force ( now military attaché in Israel ) , Gen. René Emilio Ponce , then the Army Chief of Staff ( currently Defence and Public Security Minister ) , and Gen. Juan Orlando Zepeda , currently the Deputy Defence Minister , had been among those who had planned an attack the day before at the Salvadorean military academy . |
| 28 | At present , another member commented , " we have been driving with the accelerator full down and the brake on at the same time " . |
| 29 | Since the female is only on heat for a few days and the males are often widely scattered , these scents are vital for bringing the sexes together at the right time . |
| 30 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |