Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 2 | The middle sister discovered the body when she came home at about the sixth hour of night . ’ |
| 3 | I came out at at the wrong time . |
| 4 | Cormack had run up the stairs , not taking the lift because he knew from films they could tell which floor you got off at by the lights above the door . |
| 5 | Yes wh when they reported to the committee two years ago erm I explained that there was combat modelling going on at at the time and indeed that was completed by the end of nineteen ninety two and it showed that er of all the alternatives available then Eurofighter two thousand was the most cost effective solution to the R A F's requirements and yet it would it would not be able to meet up er to the F twenty two but other than that it was superior to all other aircraft . |
| 6 | Hewitt ( 1986 ) observes that " black youngsters themselves often reach a peak of Creole use in their late teens " ( p. 193 ) while where white Creole users are concerned , " most youngsters who employ Creole cease to do so at about the age of sixteen " . |
| 7 | Then I used to go dancing down at down the and I 'd strict orders to get in on a Saturday night early , but it was always eleven o'clock walking on my own back . |
| 8 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 9 | The Friday we finally got there at about the traffic was so bad because Friday night as well . |
| 10 | The boy goes by at about the same time each day , and he is always carrying a bag . |
| 11 | The last of these classes consists of the famous eight medreses which Mehmed II had built round his mosque in Istanbul : the mosque itself was finished in 875/1470–1 , and the medreses were finished presumably at about the same date . |
| 12 | When they quit licensed dealers or are shunted out at around the age of thirty upwards , just when they start to crave job security , they are forced into a hostile world . |