Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Once upon a time ( I said , and he stared bitterly bitterly at the floor ) there was a very ugly monster who captured a princess and put her in a dungeon in his castle .
2 I put it on right at the end of our conversation at yours this morning .
3 Settle things like hours , holidays , pay day etc. right at the beginning if possible .
4 This pattern , clear enough at the time , had been obscured by the revival of Walter Machin 's reputation , and Viola 's desire to rewrite history , to have her marriage accepted as perfect , if tragically brief .
5 But they were kept going in it , rather perhaps at the discretion of those running the schemes rather than to throw them out , and as a result we did not have a scrap of vandalism in the area during the whole of the summer holidays .
6 Holly worked on alone at the lathe that fashioned the chairs ' legs .
7 When the supply comes onto the market , right so this thing here is the expectation of price in P T , when the supply comes onto the market right and that expectation is formed at T minus one , right so at the beginning of the year farmers make some forecast or some expectation of prices when the crop will come onto the market in T , right and then they form that expectation or that prediction , right , at the beginning of the period , or at the end of the last one , T minus one .
8 Right so at the point we broke off , you were saying about things that things have changed quite a lot .
9 One of the reasons for his having such innovative ideas was that he was almost untrained , some would say untrainable , and laughed ( extremely annoyingly at the time ) at his elders and betters and their obsessions with sketching and learning the orders .
10 The only girl we allowed in was Kate and that was only right at the end . ’
11 I dreamt last night that J.R.T. said " You need not worry ; you will be accepted all right at the Academy of Arts . "
12 It would be all right at the weekend .
13 He 'll be all right at the beginning , Gypsy Baron and Maritza again .
14 And it seems , she added in silent self-reproach , that I stay all right at the expense of everybody else .
15 I was passing when I saw the gates not shut properly , so I thought I 'd best come in and see if everything was all right at the house … ’
16 Now this year might be all right at the end .
17 The windows of the five-storey buildings , with ornate wrought-iron balconies , peered down condescendingly at the passers-by , smug in their classic mantles of ivy and flowering creepers .
18 At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range .
19 There was n't much of an atmosphere , well what could I expect with the home team doing so badly at the moment .
20 He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company .
21 Churchill had been long enough at the Treasury , and could perhaps go to the India Office .
22 Wait patiently and long enough at the start and the end of the day at different villus and you will see or hear most of Sri Lanka 's wildlife .
23 If only the population could just manage , by random drift , to get itself over the knife-edge , it could coast down the slope to the Tit for Tat side , and everyone would do much better at the banker 's ( or ‘ nature 's ’ ) expense .
24 Sums over histories also played an important psychological role in the development of physics since they led Feynman to propose his diagrammatic ideas about which I spoke so warmly at the start of this chapter .
25 However , the situation of older and younger generations is similar in a different sense , in that in both cases the position of individuals within those structures is determined very largely by factors outside their control — very obviously so at the time when the issue of old age pensions was first on the agenda .
26 Peering down dubiously at the envelope , Monica departed to the bus-stop in the main road , and Alice went in to join the others around the table .
27 Her problem behaviour was specific to family lunch at weekends and holidays , the only occasions when the whole family sat down together at the table .
28 There is also the oft repeated argument that we should not sit down together at the table until after unity is accomplished .
29 For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . "
30 Women can certainly be competitive as individuals , but are less so at the group level ; many of us who went to all-girls ' schools found the competitive team sports at worst a real trial and at best something of a joke , even though we were quite prepared to put ourselves out in an individual context .
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