Example sentences of "at [art] [adv] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to show human face of the hunt falls at the very first hurdle . |
| 2 | She 'd phone them at the very first opportunity , knowing how they would have worried . |
| 3 | Edith qualified at the very first Medau Society Teachers ' Examination in 1955 , and carried on developing classes in Essex , all the time making openings for the new teachers who were beginning to emerge . |
| 4 | He three-putted from three feet and made a double-bogey at the very first hole . |
| 5 | Although he was still hungry , he decided against asking her for second helpings now that he had forgotten to use her new name at the very first test . |
| 6 | No sooner back than at the very first race of the 1982 season , at Kyalami , controversy broke out again . |
| 7 | ‘ At the very first sign of such an act … ’ |
| 8 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |
| 9 | After parting from his jockey Macer Gifford at the very first fence he had continued with the rest of the field all the way round , clearing every obstacle and keeping with the herd . |
| 10 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 11 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 12 | At the very first meeting in the Tehran Hilton , renamed the Independence , one of the Iranians ( ’ a rug merchant ’ ) complained that the spare parts the Americans had brought were second-hand . |
| 13 | At the very first meeting in St Margaret 's Hope village hall they had asked for monetary pledges , at the second meeting in the local school they said it was time to call in those promises and start counting the cash . |
| 14 | Richard Cohen , who commissioned the book , said : ‘ I was very glad the judge threw it out at the very first stage . |
| 15 | On the other hand there are many decisions that are never made because the decider can not figure out how to implement the decision at the very first stage . |
| 16 | So few informed Blackwomen artists are employed in institutions , that we are co-erced into helping out , at the very last minute , to save Blackwomen artists , no , let me correct that , Black students across the board , that it was obvious that the wheel could not be eternally re-invented . |
| 17 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 18 | We add the commentary at the very last minute and it is designed simply to strengthen the picture-story , not to add to it . |
| 19 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 20 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 21 | So , at the very last minute we decided to perform on the lawn outside the main building . |
| 22 | Slightly more personal is 60 ( ‘ Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore ’ ) , but only at the very last gasp , as it were , defeating time : ‘ And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand , /Praising thy worth , despite his cruel hand . ’ |
| 23 | my Lord in a , in a sense that right at the very last page when they say a notified articles association , rules and regulations in there amended form no longer contain any clauses which constitute appreciable restrictions |
| 24 | One of his killers is the high-minded Virginsky who ‘ will never , never abandon these bright hopes ’ ( my italics ) , and another member of the quintet is Shigalov who pulls out of the affair at the very last moment , not from fear or pity or remorse but because the murder ‘ is in direct contradiction of my programme ’ — of Shigalov 's own brand of revolutionary ideology . |
| 25 | Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up . |
| 26 | Although he had won the Derby , plenty of people were still convinced that he did not truly stay a mile and a half and that Piggott 's sensitive handling of him at Epsom , producing him at the very last moment , had masked this lack of stamina . |
| 27 | But luck had come her way at the very last moment . |
| 28 | Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water . |
| 29 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 30 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |