Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at once " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Losberne , of course , was full of immediate plans to rush round London arresting all the gang and hanging them at once . |
| 2 | Disappointingly strawberries do not freeze so if you do not eat them at once you need to use them up in some other way . |
| 3 | Long curved bill and legs projecting beyond tail distinguish them at once from otherwise not dissimilar immature gulls in flight . |
| 4 | ‘ She came to pick up some papers she sent to Dr Puddephat , and she needs them at once . |
| 5 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 6 | ‘ I am sorry , Jenna , ’ she began , but Alain stopped her at once . |
| 7 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
| 8 | When I was researching this subject , the opening exchange of conversations was so invariable that I learnt to recite it at once to save time . |
| 9 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 10 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 11 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 12 | He noticed me at once . |
| 13 | He recognised them at once . |
| 14 | If you know them as FAKINTIL you will identify them at once . ’ |
| 15 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 16 | However , lest you think that I am too good to be true , let me at once add that I am not in the slightest inclined to gamble . |
| 17 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 18 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 19 | She recognised him at once from the blunt-nosed profile and pepper-and-salt hair en brosse and the large tinted lenses of his glasses , and the way he hooked his head to one side and forward like a boxer butting . |
| 20 | As he entered the shop the young girl assistant came forward ; she recognised him at once . |
| 21 | ‘ Speaking of Quatt , I must tell Aycliffe to go and fetch him at once . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I must fetch her at once ! ’ |
| 23 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 24 | I told her at once that I knew her secret , and made her promise not to send or receive any more letters . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not going anywhere , ’ he told her at once . |
| 26 | Preston identified it at once . |
| 27 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
| 28 | Do not buy flowering pot plants or any other house plants from pavement stalls , as icy winds may have damaged them — even if they do n't show it at once . |
| 29 | ‘ Stop it at once , Junior , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ Stop it at once ! ’ |