Example sentences of "[pron] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honecker begs in vain , then finally asks : ‘ Can I at least leave my luggage here for a bit ? ’ |
| 2 | This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window . |
| 3 | The decision to believe was one for which I at least was fully responsible . |
| 4 | But she was an expert and by watching her I at least gained some confidence , enough to feel I could try it myself one day . |
| 5 | ‘ Can I at least lock up ? ’ |
| 6 | I at least wanted to offer you something to eat . ’ |
| 7 | Sorry ; etcetera ) as well as the slightly perverse habit of calling all young girls ‘ madam ’ and all old women ‘ girls , ’ it was a charm to which I at least was quite prophylactically immune . |
| 8 | Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that . |
| 9 | ‘ Could I at least ask a few questions ? ’ |
| 10 | This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ . |
| 11 | Before I was pregnant , I at least was a distraction for him — I kept him away from her tent , but now his favours were of a material kind , she did not like it . |
| 12 | Oh , yes , ’ he added when Robyn looked up at him in surprise , ‘ I did a little research on you before inviting you to tender for this job — I at least go about things in a methodical and planned way . |
| 13 | I at least was never fooled . |
| 14 | But note how I at least attempt to show HOW I formed my opinion . |
| 15 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
| 16 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |
| 17 | I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools . |
| 18 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 19 | I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night . |
| 20 | Now , to cover all eventualities , I at once began to work on both lungs . |
| 21 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 22 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 23 | In Sanity , Madness , and the Family , R.D. Laing and Aaron Esterson point up , with a clarity which I at once recognised and was astonished by , the importance of attributions within the family . |
| 24 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 25 | I at once informed Mr Blair of this and I am aware that he wrote you to say that my present attitude was distinctly negative . |
| 26 | On meeting him again , I at once noticed that he was looking unusually well and bronzed . |
| 27 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 28 | ‘ I at once spoke to His Majesty , ’ Wigram later wrote , ‘ who quite rightly said that there was no use shilly-shallying on an occasion like this , and he would proceed south that night . ’ |
| 29 | I at once , Stefan , there was an , I was anything , just . |
| 30 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |