Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not advisable to give the dog free run of the car , however , simply because it could damage the interior , by scratching the upholstery , for example , if it wants to come out at first light before you are awake . |
| 2 | This enables the Bureau to find out at first hand how authorities are tackling the issue and what they need form the centre . |
| 3 | The top-placed battery car came in at eighth place . |
| 4 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 5 | As I approach Jamie 's house , I glance up at the-first floor . |
| 6 | Experts from 24 countries met in Trondheim , Norway , in May under the auspices of the UN Environment Programme ( UNEP ) to discuss implementation of the biodiversity treaty drawn up at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio . |
| 7 | It was decided that unless they got word of a change in direction from the scouts the Regent had sent to follow the enemy 's route , the Scots host , now numbering some thirteen thousand , would set off at first light , south-westwards , on a converging course . |
| 8 | Rogers and Lambert took off at first light to see what was happening . |
| 9 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 10 | The story is now taken up at second hand . |
| 11 | Finally accepting that if they do n't hang together in the face of the threat from Microsoft Corp Windows NT , their Unix efforts will hang separately , Hewlett-Packard Co , IBM Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc , Univel Inc and Santa Cruz Operation Inc lined up at last week 's UniForum trade show in San Francisco to announce a common desktop strategy for Unix workstation vendors ( UX No 427 ) . |
| 12 | No , I bottled out at last minute . |
| 13 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |
| 14 | Besides China in second place , India comes in at fifth place in the league , and Mexico and Brazil are also both bigger than Canada , currently the G7 's seventh man . |
| 15 | Foot to step down at next election |