Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 2 | When he woke up , chilled and stiff , he could not at first understand where on earth he was nor where he had come from . |
| 3 | He could not at that stage hope to fulfil this role himself . |
| 4 | Moreover , he had written it on pages that he could not at this moment tear up into big pieces and then into smaller pieces . |
| 5 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 6 | He can just go , guided by that belief , which he has , but which he need n't at that instant believe he has . |