Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 2 | Novelty records are what I 'm really into at the moment . |
| 3 | Tt , well at at the moment I am therefore due in actual fact two weeks ' holiday |
| 4 | The nationalism is there at at the end of the lead already is n't it ? |
| 5 | ‘ But I still wish you had accepted my invitation to stay here for the wedding , instead of at a hotel . ’ |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Choose a poem ( the same one as in exercise 1 if you like ) , and put the title after the first stanza , so that it is in the middle of the poem instead of at the beginning . |
| 7 | It changes every year so we go to these conference and we fight on our declaration of intent , on pensions , pensions reviews , that 's er reviewing a pension what we 're trying to get for the government of the day to review the pensions every six months instead of at the present every year . |
| 8 | I wished I had stayed there instead of at the sweetshop . |
| 9 | Zvi Lipsky , the Burial Society Treasurer , had spent the whole afternoon trying to rid his mind of the annoyance of Arnold Wine 's advertisement in that morning 's Cork Examiner and now there was Wine himself , as bold as brass , sitting up in the front seats if you please , instead of at the back where he should be . |
| 10 | Crown woods were sold by Exchequer warrant , and Forest offenders were prosecuted in the Court of Exchequer Chamber , instead of at the Forest Eyre . |
| 11 | Shiona parked at the front , instead of at the side of the house where everyone normally parked their cars , and , pushing back her hair , headed for the front door . |
| 12 | By positioning a bolster in the middle of the bed instead of at the end the mattress will look as if it is divided into two separate areas . |
| 13 | A last-minute alteration introduced by Khasbulatov regarding governmental structures would effectively require Yeltsin to give up the premiership within three months , instead of at the end of the year . |
| 14 | Once the guidelines have been set up we can look at them instead of at the target . |
| 15 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 16 | A promised treat for when you get home — a cake for tea , or watching a favourite video — gives your child something to look forward to at the end of it . ’ |
| 17 | We know that we still have several hours of concentrated work ahead and another meal to look forward to at the end of the working day . |
| 18 | ‘ I just could n't stand it any more back in Bes Pelargic , ’ Twoflower went on blithely , ‘ sitting at a desk all day , just adding up columns of figures , just a pension to look forward to at the end of it … where 's the romance in that ? |