Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Delaney peered closer at the last one , the view spoilt by the fast upward flickering of the frame . |
| 2 | They righted the boat , however , and got away at the second attempt . |
| 3 | The flight from Bahrain , with 263 people on board , veered away at the last moment , skimmed just 80ft above rush-hour traffic and narrowly missed another hotel before the landing was aborted . |
| 4 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 5 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 6 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 7 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 8 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 9 | ‘ I feared even at the eleventh hour that it would not be possible — and I knew not when we could meet else . ’ |
| 10 | The race was really on now , and as the quartet came away from the third last and turned into the straight Desert Orchid suddenly had a fight on his hands — not from Ten of Spades , who had exhausted himself in drawing the grey 's sting and now fell heavily at the second last , but from Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin . |
| 11 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 12 | Page had been forced into the play-off after dropping a shot at the ninth , his last hole , but edged home at the second extra hole with a par three after Maguire 's ball had landed in heavy rough at the back of the green . |
| 13 | Jacklin choked again at the last . |
| 14 | He shot straight at the first one , who fell back into the trench , but by then he could only watch the other three take aim . |
| 15 | ‘ Once or twice , ’ she admitted , as her next bowl ran straight at the first , making contact with a gentle ‘ klok ’ . |
| 16 | He paused again at the next landing and peered out of the open window into the back-court . |
| 17 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |