Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | It was sent to her home and came at last to her family . |
2 | Both are candidates for the Olympic team and Bridge , though the youngest man in the race , rowed in last year 's crew and competed at last year 's world championships in a coxed pair steered by Probert . |
3 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
4 | PRIZE PAIR : Nigel with the borrowed gown and Brix at last year 's ceremony |
5 | She bent over the bed and thought at first that she was too late . |
6 | Andrew Garthwaite had been playing pool with his attacker and thought at first it was a joke . |
7 | Her assessment of me changed from one of total hostility to a slightly puzzled statement that my experience with these doctors , in her own words ‘ may prove , after all , not to have been a bad thing for this peculiar chap — half high principle and half unashamed pragmatism — to have been brought into personal dealings with this autocratic profession and to experience at first hand the kind of behaviour that has been driving Ministers of Health to despair for years ’ . |
8 | The authorities became worried about the threat to public order and decided at last to act against both fascist paramilitary provocation and anti-fascist counter-violence , a decision influenced by deputations to the Home Secretary from the London Labour party and the Manchester watch committee . |