Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old enemies now competing together at the first ever international games for disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 2 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 3 | I was confident I could wear her down eventually , but I certainly never expected her to come across at the first time of asking . |
| 4 | Delaney peered closer at the last one , the view spoilt by the fast upward flickering of the frame . |
| 5 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 6 | The simple end-product arrives only at the fifth attempt . |
| 7 | Ken Connelly , 52 , who suffers from an aorta aneurysm , a problem with his main artery , was about to be operated on when he was turned away at the last minute — on two occasions . |
| 8 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 9 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 10 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 11 | The man wetted his lips , looking hungrily at the second silver coin . |
| 12 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 13 | You will rejoin the main leisure route by turning right at the next main T-junction . |
| 14 | Whenever you catch yourself speeding up in a car to get through a red light , deliberately penalize yourself by turning right at the next corner . |
| 15 | The strong relationship between syntactic category and coverage exists only at the first level of information . |
| 16 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |
| 17 | Look carefully at the first gate , then walk through it . |
| 18 | Look also at the last column in Table 3.5 . |
| 19 | The UK , in these terms , invests least at a third to a half of the investment in the USA and FRG , and a twelfth of that in Japan . |
| 20 | Each makeshift arrangement concealed a human larva that would emerge again at the first signs of dawn . |
| 21 | Look again at the first version of the witness ' testimony and answer the question : What did she eat for breakfast ? |
| 22 | At this stage we should look briefly at the third and final possibility , and with it some cases we shall not be discussing in this book . |
| 23 | He has won titles at two different clubs — Everton and Arsenal — and to do so at a third would be unique . |
| 24 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 25 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 26 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 27 | Weak clients , i.e. those lacking confidence , may not perform well at the first meeting but normally go through a sharp learning curve . |
| 28 | Speaking recently at the 7th International AIDS Conference in Florence he said : |
| 29 | When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring . |
| 30 | Peter Dutton , Corporate Recruitment Manager at Procter & Gamble 's UK head office in Newcastle , wrote : ‘ We do not use Headhunters at all , because we have a policy of recruiting only at the first level of management ( usually graduates direct from university ) and filling all more senior management positions by promotion from within . ’ |