Example sentences of "[pron] at [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her there is another bird which at first and with excitement we take for a king eider , but closer inspection reveals it to be an immature eider drake still paddling along near his mother . |
| 2 | Numbers : Numbers should usually be spelt out one at nine and at the beginning of a sentence . |
| 3 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 4 | Surely he had n't found it at last and with a girl less than half his age , intelligent but uneducated , promiscuous and burdened with an illegitimate child . |
| 5 | It was the same story every time : nothing at all until at last the significance of the date went home — ‘ But that was the day it was snowing , do n't you remember ? ’ |
| 6 | He was given no chance to escape , would say nothing at all as to what he was doing living in the graveyard and was locked in a cell at the police-station . |
| 7 | It would n't surprise me at all if on my next visit to Sweden all the pedestrians were wearing miners ' lamps . |
| 8 | Well , then , let me put it this way : neither you nor I is happy ; but I may at least continue to be only moderately unhappy in reasonable comfort , while you may abruptly cease to be anything at all except on Social Security if goat 's cheese and sheep 's yoghurt hit a rough patch . |
| 9 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |