Example sentences of "[vb past] at [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tokyo : Prices rose at first after the ruling Liberal Democratic party 's by-election victory but drifted later to close mixed , with the Nikkei average 13.79 points lower at 35,622.97 . |
| 2 | The muffled voice behind the door sank at last into hopeless silence . |
| 3 | The second trial , after months of going to and fro , moved at last to Orlando , an overwhelmingly white and conservative city , where juries , it is said , have never convicted a police officer for alleged misconduct in the line of duty . |
| 4 | There is a stunned silence … punctured at last by shrill , almost hysterical laughter . |
| 5 | I messed at first with Harry Phillimore , who was to become a lifelong friend . |
| 6 | He seemed at first to be hyper-critical — if not disbelieving . |
| 7 | Sitting together on a settee as they faced hostile questioning , Bill Clinton seemed at first to be struggling as he was tackled over the Flowers affair . |
| 8 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 9 | Then she sent Molly into a shadowy room which seemed at first to be empty . |
| 10 | ‘ Every man 's death diminishes us , Robert , ’ he observed , ‘ and I 'm sorry that he should die now when he seemed at last to be recovering his dignity . ’ |
| 11 | Most episodes of haemorrhage from peptic ulcers should becontrolled at first without surgery . |
| 12 | They turned through the narrow Kendal Dyke into a lovely wilderness of reeds and water , sailed from one to another of the posts that mark the channel , came to a signpost standing not on land but out in the middle of the Sounds , read ‘ to Horsey ’ on one side of it , reached away through Meadow Dyke , so narrow that they could easily have jumped ashore , and came at last to the open Mere . |
| 13 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 14 | Another time , Swan flew through the night for what seemed like hours and hours until they came at last to a gigantic opening in the earth 's surface , a sort of huge gaping hole in the ground , and Swan glided slowly round and round above this massive crater and then right down into it . |
| 15 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
| 16 | The climb continued by Knarlton hoot to Hudson Quarry , where wild sage was growing thickly amongst the limestone and grass , until I came at last to the rougher pasture below Hazely . |
| 17 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 18 | He came at last to a small , lean-to workshop where a girl , seated at a bench with her back to him , was decorating a pot placed on a turntable . |
| 19 | They came at last to the great , bulky empty house , staring across to parklands through the inspired grouping of its trees . |
| 20 | So she kept to the woods , following the way Pedro had led , until she came at last to the clearing at the head of the ride . |
| 21 | We came at last to a clearing brought about by a massive outcrop of rock . |
| 22 | despite the fact that the invasion came at last on Friday morning . |
| 23 | In the USSR itself , art flourished at first in experiments after the 1917 Revolution , but became confined to social utility after 1922 . |
| 24 | They turned at last from this one point of certainty in their world and walked along the fringe of the forest , picking their way between the trees but keeping the Waste in view . |
| 25 | Chesarynth rested at first from the relentless heat and gravity of Earth . |
| 26 | Moving with no clear sense of direction , I arrived at last at a wooden hut , set in a clearing in the forest which covered that part of the mountain . |
| 27 | When they were all settled , the President of the Court , the four colonels who made up the tribunal and the Judge Advocate General appeared , followed at last by the prisoner . |
| 28 | That her mother was just an ordinary woman , charmed at first by Jake 's queer ways , but then growing bored and leaving him ? |
| 29 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
| 30 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |