Example sentences of "[verb] at the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 2 | Gosport was found to be ‘ virtually without defence , protected on the landward side only by an ill-maintained entrenchment … which would fall at the first assault ’ , while the Isle of Wight contained so few troops , so thinly scattered , that it was bound to succumb to a determined attack . |
| 3 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 4 | FORMER Liberal leader Sir David Steel yesterday urged Labour to stand down for the Liberal-Democrats in seats they can not win at the next Election . |
| 5 | Charles had planned to take part in a private Mass with the Pope , but was forbidden at the last moment after strong protest to the government from the Church of England hierarchy . |
| 6 | Knocking at the first door , he was greeted by a woman with a cigarette in her mouth , curlers in her hair and flour on her hands . |
| 7 | Moor Scope battled on gamely to retake the lead from Impy Condor on the flat in the Confined and Farmer Tom was always going like a winner in the Restricted race , in which Alner and even-money favourite Baron Bob crashed at the second fence . |
| 8 | Tell the candidate what is happening at the next stage in the selection and/or the date when you will be letting people know your decision . |
| 9 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
| 10 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 11 | It has come at the eleventh hour . |
| 12 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 13 | Right , er we mentioned at the last meeting that Richard was on our side in our attempts to bring back the schools liaison officers into the fold . |
| 14 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 15 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 16 | We stopped at the first bar we came to and walked inside , to where Johnson and Fleming , two English legionnaires , were drinking . |
| 17 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 18 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 19 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |
| 20 | Is he guaranteeing to tell us where everyone of the cooks is going to come at the next Policy Meeting . |
| 21 | ‘ Here 's fifty , ’ he shouts at the next table . |
| 22 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 23 | This section concentrates on the second and third of these phases ; Section 5.2 looks at the first phase . |
| 24 | London lies at the last point where a Roman bridge could comfortably cross the Thames , where landborne traffic and ships from overseas could readily meet . |
| 25 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 26 | He ought therefore to disappear at the first opportunity , especially since the purpose of his stay , that of meeting Katja Müller , appeared to have lost its point … |
| 27 | Over-provision has a sort of knock-on effect that er whatever we provide this time , we shall be asked to provide at the next revision of the structure plan and so if we can keep some land back this time , then that might be what we offer next time , we have to roll forward the structure plan . |
| 28 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 29 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
| 30 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that Gorbachev would visit Moldavia on the following day to address the republic 's Supreme Soviet , but the visit was cancelled at the last minute , reportedly because Dnestr Russian and Gagauz deputies had announced that they would boycott the session . |