Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merlyn Rees , Gregor Mackenzie and John Cunningham , all of whom were friends who had served me as Parliamentary Private Secretaries , rallied at once and with Tom McNally , my Political Adviser , formed a small inner team to conduct the contest on my behalf . |
| 2 | Political violence was rampant , and still is : it cost at least 3,000 lives in 1990 . |
| 3 | Sean and Mandy would like to buy , but most houses in Enstone cost at least £80,000 , well outside their price range . |
| 4 | We slept heavily ; it still seemed the middle of the night as we rose at 5am in order to reach Tarbert in time for our ferry . |
| 5 | Noreen looked to her but Carmella rose at once and followed out after Mick and Joey at the opposite side . |
| 6 | Rachel rose at once . |
| 7 | They rose at once , and went . |
| 8 | Therese rose at once . |
| 9 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 10 | They rose at once , extremely eagerly , shaking out their skirts and smoothing their waists with graceful gestures . |
| 11 | Certainly US inflation subsequently had been extremely low ; between 1952 and 1967 the US wholesale price index rose at only 0.8 per cent a year . |
| 12 | But at last there was a kind of to and fro between them , more like a tennis match perhaps than a genuine conversation , with words being patted back and forth , but Rose at least was grateful for it . |
| 13 | At a time when new stations elsewhere meant bus shelters , fine new stations which retained at least some of the spirit of the old were provided at Taita , Palmerston North , and Rotorua , among others . |
| 14 | Yet , however extended , the basic process of writing and printing retained at least some elements of mediation . |
| 15 | His biographer attributes the protracted proceedings there to Hamo 's unwillingness to bribe the cardinals ( although it is clear that he retained at least Cardinal William Testa at the curia ) , as well as to the proliferation of other candidates with royal support . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Secondly , the programme posed at least as many questions as it answered . |
| 18 | Each option which appears to be attractive must be considered and designed at least in outline to see if it meets the objectives for the project . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't see , ’ she contradicted at once , her manner suddenly earnest . |
| 20 | In the heyday of the temples , the scribes used at least two linear scripts , and the evolution and interpretation of those scripts are matters of continuing controversy among scholars . |
| 21 | The aircraft crashed at approximately 1230 hrs with no injury to anyone on the ground . |
| 22 | A TOP Co Antrim motorcycle ace today spoke of how he thought he was going to die when he crashed at more than 150mph during a race at the North West 200 . |
| 23 | It was swamped by the incoming tide and sank at about 5am yesterday . |
| 24 | The rulers of Byzantium drew at least some of their supplies from India . |
| 25 | And then Raymond phoned at about quarter to seven . |
| 26 | Table II shows the death rates for trials that reported at least one death . |
| 27 | McKellar argued that while more than 70 per cent of people answering a questionnaire reported at least one hypnagogic experience the actual incidence may be even higher , as " it can be overlooked for a very long time even by those who subsequently realize that they have the experience frequently … |
| 28 | Levi ( 1987 ) found that commercial fraud recorded by the London fraud squads represented nearly three times the total cost of all property crimes in London , and that 40 per cent of companies in the survey reported at least one fraud costing over 50,000 . |
| 29 | In the Tudor and Stuart era , judging by the evidence of parish registers , court depositions and diaries , most people moved at least once in their lives . |
| 30 | On the evidence of church court depositions , Professor Clark has suggested that in the early eighteenth century six out of ten males moved at least once in their lives . |