Example sentences of "and at the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 However , his scrap with brother Joey enthralled the crowd and at the finish they came over the line almost together .
2 In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them
3 McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man .
4 McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man .
5 Yeah but it was n't done in a , in an enthusiastic manner it was like a sort of well who do you know like friend , family that sort of thing and at the beginning I thought you was a bit more positive but I thought when you were revisiting the , the planning the future that might have been nerves right at the beginning of the session , you then relaxed and your pace all slowed down , excellent at reminding er Jim picked up referrals mentioned earlier , handled the objection okay , do n't remember you asking Jim to contact them beforehand do n't think you did , Jim did he ?
6 And at the court I can remember this as a kid , at the court , of course I was n't in at at the court but I remember the story the blacklegs er picked out people and said they and they and they threw stones you see , through the window .
7 Their presence is still obvious around the city , in statues and monuments , in buildings used by them and restored for other purposes now , and at the church they attended , St Paul 's in the Jewellery Quarter .
8 Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you .
9 Well me first job was d er down lace market , and I worked in Street , Hill , and at the back there was all lodging houses , do you see ?
10 As the ricks were no longer in danger , Gabriel started to climb down , and at the bottom he met the maid .
11 I was just going to say , I was just saying , that I saw the posters that erm parents and carers should erm , go along to talk about parenting and at the bottom it said , erm , will be selling multi-racial toys and dolls and things like that .
12 At one end we should have the ancient Palace of Westminster bringing down our historical associations from the times of the early Saxon kings , and at the other we should have the Palace of Whitehall carrying them on to the revolution …
13 Not so ! always said that he had enjoyed his time at Kirkcaldy and at the lunch he underlined that sentiment .
14 Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six .
15 Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice .
16 Ronni scowled at him , suddenly filled with alarm at the way his arm was round her waist and at the way her body longed to sink unresisting against it .
17 Manager Billy Bonds said : ‘ He will be a useful asset and at the price it is not really a gamble . ’
18 This train would take her there , was bearing her there rapidly now , and at the station she would follow the signs , for signs there must be , to the Central Line going westwards .
19 The path follows the road out of Port Isaac and at the top it 's worth glancing back for a final look at this fascinating place .
20 And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had
21 After a short wait he climbed the stairs and at the top he called again .
22 ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham .
23 Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying .
24 It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it .
25 And at the corner there was a , and at the back of that , this , there was a little pub .
26 I made Aldo my Merseyside Player of the Year last season and at the rate he is going , he could win my vote again !
27 This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say .
28 We long for nights when their aircraft can not attack us , and at the moment we are rejoicing in a fog which is sheltering us , I wish the politicians would see sense and stop the war .
29 ‘ This has been given much discussion and at the moment we have used all the available funds . ’
30 We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’
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