Example sentences of "[adv] at [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A novice gets in better at this stage of his career than at any other , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 3 | He trod lightly , picking his feet up swiftly at each step in order to make as little contact as possible with the soft oozing mud . |
| 4 | ‘ Surely she did n't bathe alone at the Cove , especially at that time of the year ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 's been having trouble with her periods , if you must know , ’ she says , imputing a prurient inquisitiveness to Vic , although she is well aware that such gynaecological disclosures are the last thing he wants , especially at this hour of the morning . |
| 6 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 7 | A police spokesman said : ‘ It was a horrific crash , a terrible tragedy especially at this time of year . ’ |
| 8 | Especially at this time of year when all too often the weather is as miserable as a dozen Mancunian pensioners waiting for the 211 to Gorton . |
| 9 | They spend much of their time in the bedroom , especially at this time of year when it 's so cold . |
| 10 | ‘ Especially at this time of year , I know . |
| 11 | For ourselves , we are inclined to avoid long journeys , especially at this time of the year . |
| 12 | Oh that 's it , that 's why they 're coming down , that 's why are quite pleased to see us dear , especially at this time of the year , not many people will buy Christmas time , think oh we 'll wait and go and get Christmas over and the spring and |
| 13 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 14 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 15 | From the parking area above , you can easily walk down at either end of the crag , but it 's much more fun to follow the path leftwards and make a free 25 metres abseil through the blow-hole in the roof of the enormous cave of Baume Percée . |
| 16 | His hands came down at either side of her , trapping her against the wall . |
| 17 | It was cold in the stadium and a leaden sky threatened to weep down at any moment on the small crowd assembled below . |
| 18 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 19 | It is perhaps at this stage of our spiritual pilgrimage that we begin to develop an appetite for reading the Bible devotionally — that is , out of love for God . |
| 20 | Er I 'm still trying to digest the er implications of er these various er flows but just to comment perhaps at this stage on the possibility or otherwise of er defining a er a district location . |
| 21 | Perhaps at this point in time , there was a change from sea-floor spreading in the North Atlantic area , to sea-floor contraction . |
| 22 | Obviously at some time in the past , Farrs had put a new body on the chassis and Dad had seen the possibilities of the old one as an allotment shed . |
| 23 | The external world exists for the child only at that level of complexity which is compatible with the stage of development it has reached . |
| 24 | The difficulty of transfecting bloodstream form trypanosomes ( 22 ; DJ unpublished data ) may also be circumvented using this approach , in order to study the function and regulation of genes which are expressed only at this stage of the life cycle . |
| 25 | Jarvis managed to bowl only at half pace in the match against Hampshire at Basingstoke which petered out into a draw yesterday and he is still being troubled by a sore hamstring . |
| 26 | It would be safe enough at this time of day . |
| 27 | He probably could n't even speak clearly enough at this point for anyone to hear him properly . |
| 28 | It 's a dark room , so at any time of the day that light would be switched on by anyone wanting to read . ’ |
| 29 | We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees , so at some point in either our ancestry or chimps ' there must have been a change in chromosome number . |
| 30 | But you were too young to realise just how much work you have to put in at that stage of building up a business , how much effort it takes to hold the whole thing together and stop it from collapsing around you . ’ |