Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could have told me that at the very beginning , and put a stop to the whole thing right then . |
| 2 | Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf . |
| 3 | He will need help , of course , other agents or what have you and at the appropriate moment you arrest the lot . ’ |
| 4 | Then the hand got higher and the grip tighter and suddenly Sally was not looking at me but at the old lady in the chair and saying sharply : ‘ Mrs Cody ! |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 6 | How is it that at the British yarn show held recently in Leicester the chairman of Benson Turner , a firm of spinners in my constituency and an efficient and well-organised company , complained that the Department of Trade and Industry shows inertia and indifference when the industry submits complaints about illegal subsidies and dumping ? |
| 7 | Evelyn was gazing at it and at the eager face above the frilly collar , but whether in rapture or disbelief Sam could not tell . |
| 8 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 9 | By the time I started to react there was no time to do anything except at the instinctive level . |