Example sentences of "and [conj] at [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The termly payment from this scholarship was an evening of joy in the family , and when at sixteen the scholarship money was increased to twenty pounds per annum , it was enough to avert the danger of becoming a clerk on the Great Western Railway , a temptation which my struggling parents generously resisted . |
| 2 | The ringing seemed to go on and on and when at last a voice answered it took Jinny by surprise . |
| 3 | Fortunately , it usually happened that the rejected lover did not go away , and when at last the heroine was free , there he was , waiting still . |
| 4 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 5 | Of the two Asian models for Vietnamese independence , China and Japan , China was always more immediate and when at last the Chinese Empire fell to pieces and the Manchu dynasty ended in 1911 , the impact of this revolution was full of promise for Vietnam . |
| 6 | And when at last the whole death was assured , |