Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 2 | Shaking the loose shards of glass from the splintered frame , she stared down at the dearly familiar face of her father , and felt some of the waning strength flow back to her limbs . |
| 3 | Julius strolled over and looked down at the quietly flowing water . |
| 4 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 5 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 6 | I hope that he will find it possible to allow extra ranks to be recruited all the way along the line — not only at the most junior level — to ensure that we do not lose those very able people . |
| 7 | And , of course , the stables , that was all it , flattened down like , but that was only at the most twenty yards from the house . |
| 8 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 9 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |
| 10 | Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’ |
| 11 | However , it seems that gravity should provide a limit , but only at the very short length scale of 10 -33 cm or the very high energy of 10 28 length scales shorter than this , one would expect that space-time would cease to behave like a smooth continuum and that it would acquire a foamlike structure because of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field . |
| 12 | Both brothers laughed out loud at the deliberately comic delivery of his English phrases as they shook hands . |
| 13 | Ke the , the k kettle 's boiling so at the most convenient time , John , if you 'd care |
| 14 | There was , of course , first and absolutely foremost , the need to keep on jumping , and to do so at the very highest level ; a need which Fräulein Silber emphasised repeatedly . |
| 15 | Donna moved close to it , peering in at the finely sculpted features , momentarily distracted by the sheer artistry of the effigy . |
| 16 | ‘ We need a strong system of local government capable of both planning at the wider geographical level and of acting sensitively and accountably at the most local level , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The older surfers like Manetta and the younger Badlands faces meet and surf together at the less well-known spots on the local coastline . |
| 18 | Now they can reject these and look back more objectively at the implicitly racist atmosphere of their primary school days . |
| 19 | Like right away at the very latest . |
| 20 | Much of the work in the first two years of school will concentrate on looking backwards at the relatively recent past ( life 50 – 80 years ago ) , using oral history , photographs , objects , and looking at the locality , the family , home and school . |
| 21 | ‘ The current system means I 'm having to tell players now whether I want them or not at the most important point in the season , ’ he reasoned . |
| 22 | The quality of his paper is confirmed by the fact that he exhibited , and won some dozen prize medals at international exhibitions from 1851 onwards , though not at the more parochial trade shows . |
| 23 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 24 | And usually at the most inopportune moment . |
| 25 | Very often the film , which was always very old and fragile , broke ; and usually at the most exciting part . |
| 26 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 27 | Staff may be allocated time off at the most popular times or , conversely , allowed to work when financial rewards are increased . |
| 28 | Cried off at the very last moment , Mrs Parslow said . |
| 29 | As he had expected , the sentry came to attention automatically at the suddenly terse voice . |
| 30 | Sitting on my own behind them on the return journey I looked straight at the innocently sensuous lips of Isabella Rossellini , advertising a perfume near traffic lights . |