Example sentences of "at [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
| 2 | At worst they put one peg in where we had three . |
| 3 | At five-thirty they made gentle love ; then Felicity ran a bath . |
| 4 | The series is designed to inform and exemplify without mathematical wizardry , and is aimed at those who read scientific papers as well as those who write them . |
| 5 | At first they wrote various numbers , apparently haphazardly , on a large sheet of paper . |
| 6 | At first they suffered great privations — mainly because they did n't have a permanent supply of drinking water — but recently a well has been dug , and today they have houses and solar electricity . |
| 7 | At first they met fierce opposition , but the formation of the Republic and the immigration of many new peoples led to a wide open door for evangelical missionary activity . |
| 8 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |
| 9 | At first they bumped each other , Rose 's soft bosom a cushion for Léonie 's chin . |
| 10 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
| 11 | At first he disliked this thought . |
| 12 | At first he raced 125 production aboard a Honda NS 125 , before switching to open racing . |
| 13 | At first he showed some energy , but as recalcitrance persisted on both sides this quickly exhausted itself . |
| 14 | At last we discovered two men fighting each other . |
| 15 | At last we have two people who have volunteered to become the Society 's Archivists . |
| 16 | She looked at him wordlessly while wondering how to express the questions seething about in her mind , and at last she gathered sufficient courage to ask , ‘ Are there no women in your life , Silas ? ’ |
| 17 | When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down . |
| 18 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 19 | Kepler , too , spoke of an enhanced status for the earth : At last it enjoyed legal citizenship in the heavens . |