Example sentences of "and at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However McCann , who got to within 8 seconds of him last Saturday in the Movilla 10 , started very quickly and at the turn , which he reached in 9.30 , he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 32 | McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 33 | McCann started fast , and at the turn he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 34 | As Bosnia pulls back from the brink of peace , we look at why the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan , at what the West might do next , and at the possibility now raised of a wider Balkan war |
| 35 | On the right are some rocks , and at the foot of them the sheep are feeding . |
| 36 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 37 | This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " . |
| 38 | In 1961 the British and French governments agreed to set up a working group to consider the merits of the rival proposals and at the beginning of 1964 Ernest Marples , the British Transport Minister , and his French counterpart announced that the two governments would go ahead with a tunnel . |
| 39 | The respite was not long , especially for those living not far from a seaport , and at the beginning of August there is another apprehensive entry : |
| 40 | At one time London suppliers had been importing Holland 's renowned out-of-season fruit and vegetables for special occasions ; but with William III came those skilled in the art of ‘ forcing ’ and at the beginning of the eighteenth century Richard Bradley claimed that the kitchen gardens which |
| 41 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 42 | Having reached an ebb of spirits comparable to that which , a year before , had followed his breach with Southey , Coleridge was suddenly filled again with hopes and plans , and at the beginning of November wrote to Tom Poole with a sense of joyful liberation : |
| 43 | And at the beginning and the end of your life you 've always got to have the help of somebody alongside you — all the time . |
| 44 | The house was built by T.H. March ( the then American Consul ) who was an avid collector of plants and at the beginning of this century it was the home of Dr Herbert Watney , a great horticulturist . |
| 45 | His father secured a civil service transfer to a post in Scotland and at the beginning of September moved to a house about three miles from where Derek and his wife had settled . |
| 46 | It is important to recognise that this should not be an absolute proscription : some fine writers of English use and at the beginning of a sentence when it suits their purposes , e.g. : |
| 47 | ( Lest it be thought that that example does not count because it is seventeenth-century English , it is worth noting that modern translations retain the and at the beginning of that verse . ) |
| 48 | And at the beginning of the following term I wrote in huge letters on the front of my rough book ( regularly inspected by the housemistress ) , ‘ Exuberance is beauty ’ . |
| 49 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 50 | Although they are an unreliable indicator of the conditions of these markets , the results can not inspire confidence for the more important sales taking place later this month and at the beginning of December . |
| 51 | There were , of course , various other schemes for social improvement , and at the beginning of 1940 Ezra Pound suggested to Eliot that they should combine forces with George Santayana and collaborate on a book which would describe the conditions for " The Ideal University " . |
| 52 | But for once he had planned to escape the worst excesses of the English winter , and at the beginning of 1950 he embarked with the Fabers on a six-week cruise to South Africa : two weeks getting there , two weeks on the beach at St James near Cape Town , and two weeks back . |
| 53 | But he recuperated steadily , and at the beginning of April he travelled to Granada for a month 's vacation . |
| 54 | But his pulse returned to normal by the end of April , and at the beginning of May he returned home to Carlyle Mansions . |
| 55 | It was a miserable time ; the winter proved too much for him , and at the beginning of 1956 he had a severe attack of bronchitis : his coughing and choking were so bad that it induced his tachycardia . |
| 56 | In December , while in the last stages of composition , he stayed at home because of the London fog , and at the beginning of the new year he took to his bed for a week with a slight chill . |
| 57 | Numbers : Numbers should usually be spelt out one at nine and at the beginning of a sentence . |
| 58 | Give details for directors at the year end of interests in shares and debentures of any group company at the year end and at the beginning of the year or subsequent date of appointment . |
| 59 | Today , Muslims are classed as Arabs , while at the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the modern period , they were classed as Turks . |
| 60 | He had a variety of unskilled jobs , and at the beginning of the 1880s , when he first became involved in radical politics , he was working in a wallpaper warehouse . |