Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 2 | After a long approach slog , reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you 're getting somewhere at last . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’ |
| 4 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 5 | FIGURE 4 I 'm getting somewhere at last and feel quite happy . |
| 6 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 7 | Ma and Luke are relieved to see that I 'm settling down at last . |
| 8 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 9 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |
| 10 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 11 | THE cost of borrowing is coming down at last . |
| 12 | Nice to see the kitchen 's coming on at last . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's coming round at last . ’ |
| 14 | Even I did n't believe what was going on at first . |
| 15 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 16 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 17 | Although the French offer of a ‘ half-peace ’ ( a truce for a set period of between fifteen and thirty years , in exchange for an English undertaking not to use the French royal title during that period ) was taken seriously at first , it was turned down when the English demanded a perpetual peace together with the grant of Normandy and an enlarged Aquitaine ( as in 1360 ) in full sovereignty . |
| 18 | The guttering blue-yellow flame within the shattered shell of the car was snuffed out at last by the rain and the storm-wind . |
| 19 | So Nigel was leaving home at last . |
| 20 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |