Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 2 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 3 | She did n't catch on at first . |
| 4 | I was furious , and hurt , but it did n't sink in at first . |
| 5 | It did n't seem so at first . |
| 6 | ‘ A Hollywood movie about two cops who do n't get along at first but are thrown together on a case involving drugs , foreigners , lots of fights and guns and which ends up with them respecting each other and winning . |
| 7 | The coming of the railway through to Maidstone did n't help as at first there was no station at Halling . |
| 8 | He wondered what he would do if he could n't get into the house … well , he supposed he could go back to Joseph 's place , spend the night there and then hurry home at first light , when the servants would be up . |