Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 2 | Graham , John Taylor and I spend at least the equivalent of a day a week on cycling matters . |
| 3 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 4 | Marc was moving through the gears with a touch like velvet , his control so sure , so sensual that she understood at once the pleasure he gained from driving . |
| 5 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 6 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 7 | They guess at only the tip of the iceberg of what is going on in these firms . |
| 8 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 9 | They looked at both the Redcliffe-Maud and Wheatley approaches and concluded that the principles of the latter ‘ were more appropriate to the circumstances of Northern Ireland ’ ( Macrory 1970:24 ) . |
| 10 | To the inner city local authority it offers at least the promise of retaining some economic activities that would otherwise leave the area ; and to the inner city resident it offers the prospect , as well as often the reality , of countryside recreation and relaxation . |
| 11 | Easily as such writing can , on occasion , include the narcissistic or the vacuously ludic , it has at least the capacity to be seriously — or wittily — challenging , an enabling enhancement of its readers ' vision and decisiveness . |
| 12 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 13 | It denies at once the sovereignty of the State , and that more subtle doctrine by which the State is at once the master and servant of law by willing to limit itself to certain tested rules of conduct . |
| 14 | Between 1946 and 1985 the volume of world trade grew nine times ; it increased at twice the rate of output and incomes . |
| 15 | To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection . |