Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the adolescent , however , one will normally be able to communicate at least on a broadly similar level of sexual understanding with one 's own . |
| 2 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 3 | The entire class at DRAYTON were all laughing at once during a broomstick session in NATIONAL SMILE WEEK , GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR . |
| 4 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 5 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 6 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 7 | The meeting starts at 7.45pm in The Neighbourhood Centre , Union Street . |
| 8 | Competition in the Merseyside championships at Bebington starts at 10am with the boys hammer and junior girls high jump events , and is scheduled to finish just before 6 pm . |
| 9 | The residents ' meeting starts at 7pm at the Langdon Square Community Centre , Coulby Newham . |
| 10 | The exhibition starts at 4pm on the day prior to the opening of the conference on Friday April 3 and will continue over the weekend . |
| 11 | The event has been organised to raise money for new equipment and starts at 7.30pm in the community centre . |
| 12 | Walk starts at 2pm at the maypole in Coniston . |
| 13 | The costs and benefits of the scheme are being looked at closely by the regional flood defence committee and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 14 | The Environment Committee had it 's last last meeting by a majority vote , made a decision that the proposed reductions in service for the Fire Service sh er er should not be gone ahead with and that and that issues around the should be looked at again at the . |
| 15 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
| 16 | They report to work at 8.30am on an empty stomach . |
| 17 | I felt the blood rush to my centre — legs , fingertips , head all emptying at once in a rush — |
| 18 | Then the semi-finals will commence at 2pm on the Sunday , with the final scheduled for a 6pm start . |
| 19 | Then the semi-finals will commence at 2pm on the Sunday , with the final scheduled for a 6pm start . |
| 20 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 21 | Olivetti ( Italy ) , Bull ( France ) and STC-ICL ( Britain ) were showing modest success compared at least with the disasters earlier in the 1980S . |
| 22 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 23 | Which we 'll be looking at briefly in a sec . |
| 24 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 25 | It was answered at once in the basement . |
| 26 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 27 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | But one practical contribution could be made at once by the IBA and the Governors of the BBC . |
| 29 | Both the problem and the interest of the sociology of culture can be seen at once in the difficulty of its apparently defining term : ‘ culture ’ . |
| 30 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |