Example sentences of "at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now look at Right at the very back , |
| 2 | The lectures will all be held at 7pm in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts , 8 John Adam Street , London . |
| 3 | Bank staff will meet on Thursday at 2pm at the Old George , Bigg Market , Newcastle . |
| 4 | The ride begins at 10.30am outside the main gates to Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre . |
| 5 | At 2.30p.m. in the Fine Fare car park , a procession mustered . |
| 6 | Tulagai slid almost at once into the vacant place . |
| 7 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 8 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 9 | How he was so oppressive , how he was so strong and hairy and his voice was so loud and when he washed of a morning he made splashes in the wash-basin and blew his nose into the water , both nostrils at once into the soapy water and … |
| 10 | For over Rosemary 's shoulder she saw at once beyond the short width of the hall and into the sitting-room — and Rosemary was doing some entertaining herself . |
| 11 | On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners . |
| 12 | Abandoning his landing party , Emden 's captain Karl von Muller made at once for the open sea and opened fire with his ten 10.5cm guns , destroying Sydney 's fire-direction system . |
| 13 | Inside , a lamp hanging from the apex of the roof was still lit , and because he had n't closed his mosquito curtain , her eyes fell at once on the slender golden body of Ngo Van Loc 's wife spread-eagled beneath him on his cot . |
| 14 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 15 | Transfer to a serving platter and serve at once with the dipping sauces . |
| 16 | As a boy at Halton I had devoured every book available on the exploits of the RFC in World War I and my mind went at once to the great deeds of Ball , Bishop , McCudden , Mannock — why not Mahaddie , I thought ? |
| 17 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 18 | To flush some out it is occasionally necessary to put a copy of the authority in a sealed envelope and insist it be conveyed at once to the chief executive . |
| 19 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 20 | This brings me at once to the crucial issue in the case . |
| 21 | Firstly , the offensive must be spread at once to the Left Bank ; not , now , because this might represent the best way to Verdun , but ‘ rather on the tactical necessity of relieving our main attack ’ . |
| 22 | Mr Fisher said Neill had perhaps taken too many initiatives at once in the past year . |
| 23 | The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell . |
| 24 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 25 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 26 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 27 | At 8pm in the Central Library the Foyle Yarnspinners will be joined by their friends from Belfast for a night of gripping stories . |
| 28 | Bill Wade , Liberal Democrat hopeful for the Bishop Auckland seat , will be formally adopted by members of his party at a meeting at 8pm in the Old Manor House Hotel , West Auckland at 8pm tomorrow . |
| 29 | The result , declared at 2am by the chief executive of the local council , Mr Brian Bird , was hailed by whistles , cheers and chants of ‘ Kinnock , Kinnock ! ’ |
| 30 | THE first meeting of Focus , the new name for the re-formed Chester Lesbian , Gay and bisexual Group , takes place this evening , beginning at 7.30pm at the Quaker Meeting House , Frodsham Street , Chester . |