Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] at least " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 2 | They also bought blank cassettes , and Zuwaya used them at least as much to record poems and songs as to re-record other cassettes or broadcast music . |
| 3 | We found him at least two of my officers did , in a bath full of boiling water in the shower rooms . |
| 4 | Once amongst the world 's greatest blue-water navigators , guided by wave patterns and the clues in seaweed and bird droppings , the Bugis had now lost so much confidence in their old ways that they had been reduced to coast-hugging , on the principle that if their ships sank they at least had a chance of making it ashore alive . |
| 5 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 6 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 7 | They screwed him at least once and he knows it . |
| 8 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 9 | She owed him at least a chance to explain , and decided to drop into his offices on her way to the shop . |
| 10 | Willed it at least , even though she had not carried it out . |
| 11 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 12 | I thought you at least knew me better than that . ’ |
| 13 | But pride would n't let her do that — pride insisted she at least made an effort . |
| 14 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 15 | And do you erm thought it at least very possible that there was someone with a gun the other side of the door . |
| 16 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
| 17 | From this point of view , opportunities must have seemed slow to come , but de Valois gave him at least one chance every year from the time of his joining the company : Adieu and Tritsch Tratsch in 1947 , Children 's Corner in 1948 and , for the following year , his most ambitious production to date , Sea Change . |
| 18 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 19 | Only when she looked down , fixing upon her own feet , had she at least the illusion of vision . |
| 20 | like I said we at least to go on one complex exercise every month which , although they ca n't physically make you go on it there was , you know , they more or less made you go sort of thing pay to do and then we were there the other weekend we had one of these weekends where be more fun , really hard work though it 'll be more fun for |
| 21 | He hoped he at least sounded businesslike , as though it were not a private call , and realized immediately that Alexandra would refuse to take the call if she knew it was him . |
| 22 | ‘ I bought my first one in 1974 and I had it at least ten years . |
| 23 | Mr Spedding said he at least would continue the tradition , ‘ while I am able to stagger up the stairs ’ . |
| 24 | He had not wanted a drama , demands , excitement , but he had somewhere wanted her at least to complain that he did not . |
| 25 | He would not , if Thiercelin was any judge , receive more than a curt acknowledgement from the emperor , who disliked him at least as much as most . |