Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her marriage in 1137 to the heir to the French throne seemed at first to be an ideal match . |
| 2 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 3 | The entire German Army attacked at first light on 28 August . |
| 4 | ‘ It belonged to your father , ’ the old man said at last . |
| 5 | Vologsky 's turbulent emotions broke at last . |
| 6 | Her neighbour , after helping himself well to leg of mutton as the vast dish had at last come round to him , said ( confirming her ) , ‘ Our guest of honour is a real femme du monde . ’ |
| 7 | It had not been an easy concept to grasp at first , but ‘ we 're getting better at being businessmen , ’ Mr. Lockley said . |
| 8 | I spun into the spotlight with arms raised , smile flashing , galloped down the stairs , trying not to look down , across the stage , bowing like a courting duck to the boxed panel en route , along the promontory jutting out into the midst of the wildly cheering audience and , as the extravagant applause began at last to subside , heard myself say : |
| 9 | The garish shirt that caused a myotonic goat to faint at first sight may have little effect once the animal has grown used to its owner 's poor taste . |
| 10 | The International Squash Rackets Federation will introduce random drug testing at next year 's world championships . |
| 11 | The Palace had been unable to fill the outside-left berth adequately after George Clarke 's long reign had come to an end , but there was no doubt in any supporter 's minds that a worthy successor had at last been found when Bob Bigg made his Palace debut . |
| 12 | ESSEX school students of all ages now have a unique opportunity to study at first hand the integration of wildlife and landscape conservation with modern farming techniques . |
| 13 | Whilst your forthcoming weekend will naturally provide you with the ideal opportunity to discover at first hand the delights of owning your own Highland retreat , I can assure you there is absolutely no commitment . |
| 14 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 15 | It 's just that after four long , very long , years , a little light seems at last to be discernible through the gloom . |
| 16 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 17 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 18 | The steadying claw withdrawn at last . |
| 19 | And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless , the fateful twitching stilled at last . |
| 20 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 21 | Professional Draw is equally at home with creative or technical illustration and the interface shows that a great deal of thought about usability has gone into it , although the sheer weight of features and refinements for precision illustration make it a complex package to master at first . |
| 22 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 23 | A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU . |
| 24 | Sergeant Charles Trumper was discharged from active service on 20 February 1919 , one of the early ones : the missing toe had at last counted for something . |
| 25 | The public breakdown of discipline in the crime-suppression division has at last destroyed the faith of many Thais in the police . |
| 26 | The luxury tramcar had at last arrived ! |
| 27 | She will be able to get on with her independent life knowing at last that everyone is aware of the truth . |
| 28 | Within six hours of the short film arriving at Twentieth Century-Fox 's studios in America , Crawford received a telephone call to say he had the part . |
| 29 | The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — . |
| 30 | After the long drive up from Egypt , the various parties assembled at Eighth Army Headquarters at Bouerat . |