Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight . |
| 2 | As I have said , the courts can now look at white papers and official reports for the purpose of finding the ‘ mischief ’ sought to be corrected , although not at draft clauses or proposals for the remedying of such mischief . |
| 3 | A few local unions of an unquestionably bona fide description were founded and survived despite the difficulties of finding competent and incorruptible leaders who could adequately represent the interests of an ill-educated and frequently itinerant membership which was more often than not at sea . |
| 4 | Emma too , although still at school , was now provoked to make a contribution . |
| 5 | We might be tempted also to say that other benefits of depreciation accounting would ensue , such as producing a charge in revenue accounts for the use of assets , rather than as at present for the financing of assets . |
| 6 | rest of it cos obviously at work you 're straining every minute |
| 7 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 8 | A trip organiser said : ‘ They reacted as if still at home . ’ |
| 9 | It took the Evans family about four months to finalise designs and begin trading , but now the father and daughter work regularly from early in the morning until late at night , seven days a week . |
| 10 | Equally , during the summer months ( when the Euro Disneyland Theme Park is open until late at night ) the return to your hotel may be between 9 and 10pm . |
| 11 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 12 | ‘ Places like Ayr , Largs and Helensburgh which currently have trains until late at night and weekends would be cut down to peak-hour commuter services because they are the only ones that make money . |
| 13 | Clearly Looe schoolboys were expected to have a nautical bent and those who had were promised they would ‘ … be shown to take Observations of the Sun , Moon and Stars so expeditiously and accurately as if actually at sea , Looe having the advantage of the Horizon thereat upwards of 110 degrees ’ . |
| 14 | Yet Germany was in no conceivable danger from Russia , unless already at war with France . |
| 15 | One official described outdoor proctors as men who ‘ hover about the streets leading to the courts , like so many ill-omened birds of prey , from early morning till late at night , and who have no trade or legitimate calling but who subsist by swindling . ’ |
| 16 | One moment you give all your time to it , you do n't come home till late at night , you do n't even come home in the afternoon like ordinary men , the next you are giving no time to it at all . |
| 17 | And that was quite a good idea , because late at night following wedding parties and other , if anybody was behaving in an disorderly manner and people were returning home , they would always tell the policeman that they saw that a rowdy crowd were coming along . |
| 18 | But there was no mistake when on 21 April 1823 , while still at work on the Crucifixion he had to put the project on hold . |
| 19 | If possible , help your child to practise the correct behaviours while still at home . |
| 20 | Dylan 's earliest musical influences were country music ( the two Hanks , Snow and Williams ) and rock 'n' roll ( while still at school he had an ambition to join Little Richard 's band ) . |
| 21 | ‘ In this way boys and girls would get ample opportunity of guidance as to their choice of careers , and those who were going to be apprenticed or learn skilled trades might have all their arrangements made while still at school . ’ |
| 22 | He took the University of London Matriculation Examination in 1932 , obtaining credits or better in every subject , while still at school , as a result of which he was admitted to the University , where despite enormous handicaps , he gained a Honours B.Sc. , followed by the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in science and geology . |
| 23 | BRAINY kids should start swotting for university degrees while still at school , Britain 's top heads demanded yesterday . |
| 24 | No mention at all is made of sign language in the book , even though 82 per cent of deaf young people report its use while still at school ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982a ) . |
| 25 | He was one of several players to make their debut for the province while still at school . |
| 26 | In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act . |
| 27 | While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine , which rapidly collapsed . |
| 28 | After visiting once with her mother , while still at school , Juliet had fallen in love with the hospital , and had vowed there and then to do her nursing training at Riverside . |
| 29 | IT seems almost unbelievable that it is 20 years since the Brodsky String Quartet 's public concert in the Teesside Polytechnic while still at school in Middlesbrough . |
| 30 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |