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Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] at " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 'd rather eat loads and at least then I wo n't look so lanky !
2	Anne visited Sarah but at first she was too feverish and in too much pain to talk .
3	Difficult decisions will need to be made to ensure that commissioned research is sufficiently responsive to the needs of purchasing authorities but at the same time of sufficient scientific rigour to attract good quality academic researchers .
4	Completer finishes finishers because at the end of the day that job has got to be finished off .
5	But at the same time the Party could argue that it was attempting to equalize things or at least limit inequalities in the sense that , that , that the tax rates were .
6	The industry 's reaction to news of the Novell/USL negotiations ( UX No 398 ) is less one of surprise at the possibility that Novell might effectively buy Unix than at the timing .
7	‘ At the end of the match in Berne last year they snatched victory and at the end of this game they snatched a point off us .
8	And while Roosevelt was to some extent restrained by the State Department and , even more , after the US had recognized de Gaulle 's government in October , 1944 , by considerations of reconstituting France as at least a European power , there was , on the operational level , a situation developing in southern China , in which the US was involved , which would affect the fortunes of the Vietnamese revolutionaries , their appearance , their standing with other Vietnamese patriots , and their ability to influence future events .
9	The main problems of children referred were : ‘ beyond control ’ ; families unable to provide care or at risk of abuse ; parents requesting a break ; children with school-related problems .
10	Management may need to provide encouragement and at worst assistance to operatives in the completion of time sheets .
11	He began to write verses and at the age of seventeen , in sending a sonnet to his mother , declared his resolution that ‘ My poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God 's glory . ’
12	I then reported situation and at end I told him that after tonight I might be of no further use and should resign with the whole Cabinet .
13	At zero four hundred hours they fixed bayonets and at zero four twenty-one the Verey pistol shot a red flame into the sky somewhere behind the lines and the air was filled with whistles blowing .
14	" I think I learnt a few things , " laughs Eva though at the time it must have been extremely painful for the girl who had " excelled at everything " .
15	There is in this respect a total difference between Community legislation and British primary legislation , in respect of which there is no obligation to state reasons and at the present time no practice of doing so .
16	Yet it seemed more terrible , a horror greater than the Abigails ' marriage or the treatment of the Dasses by their son , greater even than the death of Stephen 's mother because Stephen 's mother had sought peace and at least had found it .
17	Within the minutiae of the constable 's experience , policing the street daily met consent and at the other pole , antagonism .
18	The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries .
19	Allen thought they were wolves but though he kept the fire going all night he assured Marian that at this time of the year with the forest full of game they were in no danger from wolves or from any creatures but men .
20	Allen thought they were wolves but though he kept the fire going all night he assured Marian that at this time of the year with the forest full of game they were in no danger from wolves or from any creatures but men .
21	So really Harlow do not do Corpus or at least were not aware of it .
22	Teaching delivered through coercion , bullying and threats may achieve learning but at tremendous cost to children 's confidence , self esteem and personal dignity .
23	The magistrates told Odey that at present he 's incapable of looking after a dog , and banned him from doing so for 3 years .
24	By laying down tight guidelines and clear methods of instruction the state could more easily monitor success and at the same time ensure that doctrines and ideas which the party felt to be unacceptable could be excluded from the school curriculum .
25	It was an insignificant point in its way , for Harry knew from Marjorie Mallender that Clare had met Minter whilst at Oxford — he must simply have been at another college — yet somehow his faith in his own reasoning was undermined .
26	Mr and Mrs Robinson , who own the house but have divided it into single bed-sits for Social Security tenants , told police that at first they thought their son had been a victim of cot death syndrome , but a post mortem examination revealed the murder and assault .
27	The people who win the competition and a certain amount of runners-up receive rosettes and at bigger competitions they receive cups .
28	The G M B and Apex Partnership shop stew stewards and representatives of Leyland Daf played a magnificent part , maximizing jobs whilst at the same time looking after the needs of those thrown on the scrap heap through no fault of their own .
29	For example , we can not answer such questions as at what time does a rural Malagasy begin work and at what time does he or she end it ?
30	Since Charles 's father claimed the throne of England as well as Scotland , however , he was virtually obliged to take the initiative and eventually , on Friday 1 November 1745 , the 5–6000 men of the Jacobite army , of whom 300–500 were cavalry , marched out of Edinburgh heading south and at Dalkeith split into two columns , one led by the Duke of Perth , going via Peebles , Moffat , Lockerbie and Ecclefechan , the other , led by Charles on foot , through Kelso , Jedburgh and Hawick .