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 . |