Example sentences of "and [pron] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
2 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
3 | Burden plodded through the rain from estate agent to estate agent and he at last found Moat Hall , listed in the books of a small firm on the outskirts of the town . |
4 | They also agreed that the Scandinavian army would be given tribute , and it at last occupied London , thus gaining in peace what it had never gained in war . |
5 | You get one video and what at first glance looks like a child 's painting book . |
6 | As we shall see later in this essay , however , there is a definite , and what at first sight may appear to be surprising , degree of isomorphism between the two perspectives . |