Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 2 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 3 | She turns at once to the Women 's page , where there is a Posy Simmonds strip cartoon adroitly satirizing middle-aged , middle-class liberals , an article on the iniquities of the Unborn Children ( Protection ) Bill , and a report on the struggle for women 's liberation in Portugal . |
| 4 | For over Rosemary 's shoulder she saw at once beyond the short width of the hall and into the sitting-room — and Rosemary was doing some entertaining herself . |
| 5 | She ran at once to the door . |
| 6 | The one where that one number eight and it 's , it 's got that complex number , that 's the one we looked at just before the end of half term , yeah . |
| 7 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 8 | He arrived at 1.30am on the first day , slept for a few hours and turned up at the clubhouse to find he was in the field . |
| 9 | I mean he started at roughly about the same time as me . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing , ’ he called at once to the others , whose view of the top car was obscured by the tall backs of their seats . |
| 11 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
| 12 | When the stories reached Lysons himself , he wrote at once to the Duke of Portland , the home secretary , alerting him to the ‘ very suspicious business ’ taking place at Alfoxden , and on 11 August a government spy called James Walsh was dispatched to investigate . |
| 13 | Tea helped us rise at 3am for the final climb . |