Example sentences of "at once [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Washington police fired tear gas at them and the gas was blown at once across the White House garden . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 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 | Tulagai slid almost at once into the vacant place . |
| 6 | How he was so oppressive , how he was so strong and hairy and his voice was so loud and when he washed of a morning he made splashes in the wash-basin and blew his nose into the water , both nostrils at once into the soapy water and … |
| 7 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 8 | The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Memorandum on the Mental Health Act 1983 ( 1987 ) issued by the then Department of Health and Social Security states , at paragraph 289 , that whilst calling upon the assistance of the police should be kept to a minimum , ‘ the police should always be informed at once of the escape or absence without leave of a patient who is considered dangerous or who is subject to restriction on discharge under Part III of the Act . ’ |
| 12 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |
| 13 | On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners . |
| 14 | This mechanism accounts at once for the observation that limbs are truncated when the thickened ridge at the tip of the bud is removed . |
| 15 | Abandoning his landing party , Emden 's captain Karl von Muller made at once for the open sea and opened fire with his ten 10.5cm guns , destroying Sydney 's fire-direction system . |
| 16 | The Eliots returned from America in May , and rehearsals began almost at once for the Edinburgh Festival production of his new play . |
| 17 | Four different parts of a plot can be viewed at once on the screen , the X and/or Y scaled between linear and logarithmic and size of the plotted data points changed . |
| 18 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 19 | I would have liked to have checked at once on the state of the horses , but I supposed if there were something wrong with any of them I would hear soon enough . |
| 20 | Inside , a lamp hanging from the apex of the roof was still lit , and because he had n't closed his mosquito curtain , her eyes fell at once on the slender golden body of Ngo Van Loc 's wife spread-eagled beneath him on his cot . |
| 21 | Redpath had acted at once on the very slenderest of chances — apart from the date , and the fact that Stavanger was missing , there was n't a scrap of evidence to link him with the body found on the Thames foreshore at low tide . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 24 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 25 | Transfer to a serving platter and serve at once with the dipping sauces . |
| 26 | She made none for herself , but left Rachaela at once with the mug in her hand . |
| 27 | What is lost here is the sense of form as integral element , as the means , in fact , whereby a particular human need is met — ie is materially realised — in a way consonant at once with the levels of provision and " list of requirements " and with a certain way of life . |
| 28 | My mother softened at once at the words ‘ Do you remember … ? ’ when they referred to her youth and not to her knowledge . |
| 29 | It was a picture of Louise Butler and Terry recognised her at once as the girl who had run out in front of his car on the night of the rave . |
| 30 | There are two things to note at once about the remit . |