Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the police ordered him to end it , he complied at once , his half-dozen supporters singing the National Anthem as they invariably did at the conclusion of their gatherings . |
| 2 | Adapting his subject to his captive audience , he plunged at once into parliamentary small talk about the newly appointed committee , bobbing up and down between Berowne and Dalgliesh like a small craft on bumpy water . |
| 3 | Although Sherek saw only the drafts of the first two acts , he agreed at once to do so . |
| 4 | With a schoolboy 's shamefacedness , as if he had been caught out in something furtive ( as , really , he had ) , he agreed at once to take her class . |
| 5 | The doctor seemed surprised , but he agreed at once . |
| 6 | ‘ Where are you going ? ’ he asked at once . |
| 7 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he asked at once . |
| 8 | He read at once what was in her mind and his manner softened . |
| 9 | How did he know at once that we were guilty , she wondered later , that we were , all of us , conspirators ? |
| 10 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 11 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 12 | Between them , he discerned at once , there could flourish no hint of fellowship . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry , Faye , ’ he muttered at once . |
| 14 | In a private postscript added surreptitiously to one of Wolfgang 's letters home from Paris , Frau Mozart had also expressed her anxieties about her son 's infatuation with the Webers ; as soon as Wolfgang met someone new , he seemed at once ready to dedicate himself to them body and soul , without thinking of his own interests . |
| 15 | He withdrew at once to a gracious distance , not to disturb in any way the privacy and composure of the next contender , and his two young squires , well trained to be equally unobtrusive in attendance , drew in silently at either shoulder . |
| 16 | He guessed at once that his son had been talking to Yuan , and even though the casual disclosure of information had been prearranged , he regretted the unavoidability of the confrontation which was about to occur . |
| 17 | Mary 's confirmation of her intended marriage reached Coleridge just before Christmas , and he replied at once in a letter which was his brave and gentle farewell . |
| 18 | ‘ No , ’ he replied at once , defying him to look under its cover . |
| 19 | He expressed at once his sorrow for my father 's death . |
| 20 | Opening Poole 's letter on a visit to Bristol City Library , he began at once to write the first of two wildly intemperate replies : the country round Iron Acton was ‘ intolerably flat ’ ; Bristol contained no friends of his beyond Cottle and Estlin ( Wade was going away ) ; and as for the cottage , he would make it do . |
| 21 | When Hazel woke he perceived at once that it was morning — some time after sunrise , by the smell of it . |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing , ’ he called at once to the others , whose view of the top car was obscured by the tall backs of their seats . |
| 23 | He sobered at once . |
| 24 | if he , he feels for once |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 27 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 28 | He saw at once how such an opportunity might have tempted one of the guards . |
| 29 | He knew at once Lee had taken it . |
| 30 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |