Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [det] rate " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I see , all is well : you at any rate are serene … . |
| 2 | well we sha n't finish that lot shall we at this rate ? |
| 3 | But we believe we know what at this moment the country wants , and we believe it is for us in our strength to do what no other party can do at this moment and to say that we at any rate stand for peace … |
| 4 | When , for example , a solicitor is recruited as a specialist to head up a new department it would be appropriate to seek some commitment from him at any rate in the medium term . |
| 5 | I 'd have a better tan than her at this rate , all the outdoor living I was doing . |
| 6 | Perhaps she really did little more than lend her name , but it was to her at any rate that Queen Victoria 's secretary wrote with royal support for her venture ( the Queen had also supported the Victoria Press , named after her ) . |
| 7 | If all else failed they at any rate ought to produce children . |
| 8 | That 's the way I used to do it at any rate . |
| 9 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 10 | He commonly observed to his students that it was doubtful whether there was as much joy in heaven as in some places on earth at the rise of the ‘ Barthian school ’ — and would add that he at any rate did not belong to it . |
| 11 | Other than myself , probably only Florian Jones knows what you really are , and he at any rate obviously does n't find the reality at all unpalatable . ’ |
| 12 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |
| 13 | ‘ For me at any rate , ‘ I reply . |
| 14 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 15 | The combination of purple-red flowers and cream variegated foliage of Buddleia davidii ‘ Harlequin ’ may not suit all tastes but least appealing of all , for me at any rate , is the purple-flowered phlox , also called ‘ Harlequin ’ , whose leaves are generously splashed with cream , a combination which does not work for me . |
| 16 | It 's certainly never anything stronger than that , for me at any rate , but the guests can have what they like . |
| 17 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 18 | In this selection of old and modern recipes I give precedence to those dishes made from the gooseberry , because green gooseberry fool is — to me at any rate — the most delicious as well as the most characteristic of all these simple , almost childlike , English dishes . |
| 19 | A parallel pleasure and comfort , for me at any rate , was to watch the Jews . |
| 20 | ‘ Me at any rate . |
| 21 | On the sweet subject of Telethons — or Telecoms , as most people call them , to me at any rate — these monstrous TV raffles which raise millions each year to take the place of decent health care for people who 've paid their National Insurance for decades , are big business . |
| 22 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 23 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 24 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 25 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 26 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |