Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 3 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 4 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 5 | This brings me at once to the crucial issue in the case . |
| 6 | The older children 's bodies were found after their mother Maeve went to wake them at 8.30am on the overnight Swansea-Cork ferry Celtic Pride . |