Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 2 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 3 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 4 | He dialled Essex and , the gods relenting , got through at once to the man he wanted . |
| 5 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 6 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 7 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 8 | Heath was attempting to break with the politics of accommodation , the ‘ triangular system ’ of government/union/employer consultation which had been growing up at least since the war . |
| 9 | Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato . |
| 10 | Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period . |
| 11 | On 1 November 1950 he declared that Mary had been assumed bodily into heaven — the doctrine of the Assumption , which had no scriptural , or other early Church , warrant , but which had been celebrated liturgically at least from the fourth century and certainly from the fifth . |
| 12 | The Eliots returned from America in May , and rehearsals began almost at once for the Edinburgh Festival production of his new play . |
| 13 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 14 | Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species . |
| 15 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan . |
| 17 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 18 | A neighbour who did not give evidence at the trial of Lisa and Michelle Taylor has said she saw a girl resembling Alison , 21 , arrive home at 6pm on the night she was stabbed . |
| 19 | Stuck here at least until the 4th . |
| 20 | Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening . |
| 21 | The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell . |
| 22 | The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield . |
| 23 | The roots of Serbian nationalism go back at least to the Empire of Stevan Dušan in the fourteenth century . |
| 24 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 25 | He , like other Darwinian evolutionists , was strongly opposed to the idea of the spontaneous generation of life from inorganic matter , though no doubt it must have happened once at least in the past . |
| 26 | ‘ Lawrie immediately contacted Manchester United to make sure Pallister was okay and was told to check again at 6.30pm after the match . |
| 27 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 28 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 29 | The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy . |
| 30 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |