Example sentences of "and [verb] at [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that Sue worked as a nurse four nights a week , going on duty some time after the children had gone to bed in the evening , and returning at seven in the morning . |
| 2 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 3 | It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population . |
| 4 | If you were ever in doubt about the ‘ benefits ’ of the long-proposed Cardiff Bay barrage , you only need to go to Euston Station and look at one of the walls there . |
| 5 | In the United States , however , that connection was given a unique twist when in 1833 a new mass circulation tabloid , the Sun , was published and sold at one-sixth of the cover price of other papers . |
| 6 | Not the best reason for flying home , but oh God , she was sick of the subzero temperatures , the fact that the sun rose at ten in the morning and set at two in the afternoon . |
| 7 | to 2,501,943 at the end of December , and finally reached 5,201,919 in March 1991 before being renamed the gold cordoba on March 4 and set at 5.0726 to the US dollar . |
| 8 | We then continued our journey , pushing on until we reached the city walls and lodged at one of the fine taverns on the Southwark side of the river . |
| 9 | Family was Jim and the others ; family was her women 's group and squabbling at two-thirty in the morning about whether women could be said to constitute a separate class because they had a separate relation to the mode of production , while still making each other coffee and giving each other hugs . |
| 10 | Myeloski shrugged and sat at one of the desks . |