Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was allowing the Defence Forces to expand at last . |
| 2 | The kitchen door opened at last , and suddenly she was framed in its bright rectangle of light . |
| 3 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 4 | Copy of a letter from Councillor Mrs. Brereton to the C. B. News that , due to sustained pressure by herself , the District Council has at last let contracts to resurface the stretch of the Water of Leith Walkway between Currie Kirk and Juniper Green . |
| 5 | Copy of a letter from Councillor Mrs. Brereton to the C. B. News that , due to sustained pressure by herself , the District Council has at last let contracts to resurface the stretch of the Water of Leith Walkway between Currie Kirk and Juniper Green . |
| 6 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 7 | From the camps of Europe , those who had avoided the execution pits and the gas chambers had at last reached the Promised Land about which their cantors had sung at Auschwitz . |
| 8 | On the eve of the agreement to call off the dispute the Yorkshire Factory Times commented that the wage retreat had at last ‘ been stopped ’ . |
| 9 | There were 35 of us on top of the Eiger : Edwin Drummond 's Climb for the World dream realised at last . |
| 10 | By the end of the century things had at last begun to change : in 1899 Primitive Methodists agreed a minimum of £100 while Congregationalists and Baptists set aside part of their Twentieth Century Funds for salaries . |
| 11 | On the way red-necked phalaropes at last show themselves , tame , almost friendly birds that come towards the camera . |
| 12 | And amid calls from all sides for the terrorist violence to end at last he said that if his son became a symbol for peace and hope , that would be ‘ Tim 's unique achievement ’ . |