Example sentences of "at least you [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , at least you 'll have someone to meet you at Euston , ’ Rose said softly to Maggie who already knew that she would be met . |
| 2 | Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming ! |
| 3 | At least you 'll know what he meant by it . |
| 4 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |
| 5 | But I knew I could trust you , and that at least you would believe me . |
| 6 | At least you should remove his collar . ’ |
| 7 | At least you could prove who you were . ’ |
| 8 | He was appalling to both sides at least you can give him that . |
| 9 | When it comes to mixing the colours it 's totally different from mixing paints — but at least you can leave it for a while and come back to it later . ’ |
| 10 | Mind you I suppose out of a catalogue it 's at least you can feel them and see them all that . |
| 11 | Although there is no treatment , at least you can adjust your training routine accordingly . |
| 12 | And there 's a lo there 's a whole industry built up about inheritance tax planning where you actually write something in trust for your dependents , and er that 's simple in that if you 're in good health now , you can write say a twenty thousand pounds inheritance tax cover , under trust for your children so that 's paid outside the estate , it does n't make the matters worse , and mo most conveniently at retirement it 's simple to do because you might pay it on an annual premium or a regular monthly premium , and it might cost you twenty or thirty pounds a month , but at least you can forget it then . |
| 13 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 14 | At least you can let him , give him a run . |
| 15 | Somehow ‘ Carlsson ’ does n't quite cut the mustard like Porsche 's ‘ Carrera ’ , but these are the first of the company 's production-line cars to have a name — like BMWs , they have always had numbers — and as the man at Saab said , at least you can pronounce it . |
| 16 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 17 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
| 18 | Some will be lovely and you will wish to savour them ; others may be pretty dreadful — but at least you will know what to avoid . |