Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was joined in the Test team by Desmond Haynes , one of the most dependable and successful of all opening partnerships was created , and as the senior member in his late twenties Greenidge matured at just the right time . |
| 2 | Its view of a more civilized order involved at once the removal of unreasonable restraints and the sensible management of the necessary political and economic framework of life . |
| 3 | She was told that , unless insemination occurred at exactly the right time each month , her acid levels would kill off the donor sperm . |
| 4 | And it was to restore order , as much as anything , that a nominally Vietnamese administration provided at least the façade of an ‘ independent ’ Vietnamese government . |
| 5 | She recognised at once the well-built woman who turned from some chore at the kitchen sink as the woman who had opened the door to her last Friday . |
| 6 | It was the best lesson I 've ever had , and it came at just the right time . ’ |
| 7 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 8 | It was very difficult to concentrate on football , and then my injuries came at completely the wrong time . |
| 9 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 10 | What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness . |
| 11 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 12 | President , delegates , the events of last October , and the coal crisis , dramatically showed at once the strength and the weakness of the trade union movement today . |
| 13 | Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world . |
| 14 | In fact your letter arrived at just the right time , since I am now planning the Spring ‘ 93 Edition of Rural Wales . |
| 15 | ‘ God Almighty ! ’ whispered Laura when they arrived at where the Jordan 's street had been . |
| 16 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 17 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
| 18 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 19 | The timing of these changes and the details of the structures adopted varied between the countries comprising the United Kingdom , but ‘ as a service provider , local government in Scotland developed at broadly the same pace as local government in England and Wales ’ ( Page 1983:43 ; cf. foster et al. |
| 20 | In the vice-president 's office too , Sam Watson , George Bush 's aide , marvelled at how the contras were doing . |
| 21 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 22 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 23 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 24 | Kluck 's was a fateful decision , and Galliéni , studying maps and reports in his Paris headquarters , saw at once the manner in which to deliver a decisive blow . |
| 25 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 26 | Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving . |
| 27 | She wondered if Fand had enchanted her , but knew at once the Woman had no such powers . |
| 28 | Her children knew at once the sort of things that these would be . |
| 29 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 30 | What is more , in the decade after 1975 employment in these two sectors grew at twice the average rate for all industry . |