Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On the lawn , the cat arched its back and spat at Gaily through the glass .
2 When Princess Flavia heard that the King was hurt , she refused to stay at Tarlenheim House and rode at once to the Castle of Zenda .
3 The event has been organised to raise money for new equipment and starts at 7.30pm in the community centre .
4 Angela Foley , the twenty-seven-year-old personal secretary to the Director of Hoggatt 's Laboratory , picked up the envelope and guessed at once by the quality of the paper , the expertly typed address and the London postmark what it must be .
5 It so happened that the summer was an exceptionally hot one , the yield of tomatoes in the region was unusually high , and " taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity , two thousand 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato were manufactured and despatched at once to the Savoy Hotel . "
6 At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store .
7 The manufacture of pottery seems to have begun there as early as AD 40 and continued at least until the end of the second century .
8 Transfer to a serving platter and serve at once with the dipping sauces .
9 Punch said nothing but slid at once from the room .
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