Example sentences of "at once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't all shout at once but just could somebody go and do it right okay . |
| 2 | They did n't all let go at once but only when they could hold on no longer . |
| 3 | Not at once but quite soon . |
| 4 | When I knit the waistband of a skirt ( using separate method ) , I return the skirt in two halves , but , as Val reminded me the other day , it is quicker to do it all at once and here is the method : — Join back seam ( sideways knitted skirt ) or all seams . |
| 5 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 6 | But Tyrion could not be everywhere at once and slowly the weight of numbers turned the battle against the High Elves . |
| 7 | This , in a classic demonstration of how to cover someone else 's chart biggie , becomes , from the opening gurgling , at once and unmistakably the sole property of The Fall . |
| 8 | The eyes fastened on Dinah at once and scarcely left her . |
| 9 | ‘ Shih Clarac , ’ he answered , distancing the man at once and subtly reminding him of their relative status . |
| 10 | rocks at once and ever It flung up |
| 11 | Time is condensed into a moment and unleashed to infinity ( ‘ at once and ever … momently ’ ) . |
| 12 | Sitting up straight-backed on her stool , she could flatter two men at once and still be watching a third in a mirror ; she could keep tabs on the whole shifting choreography at once . |
| 13 | At the Chester Beatty Institute , it was suggested that nitrogen mustards might alkylate two adjacent molecules at once and so link them together . |
| 14 | To doubt is to waver between the two , to believe and disbelieve at once and so to be ‘ in two minds ’ . |
| 15 | ( It would clearly be a mistake to spend it all at once and then not be able to advertise for the rest of the year . ) |
| 16 | We will take coffee at once and then I intend to show her over the house . |
| 17 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 18 | A second attempt is made at once and now , out left , he can actually talk to the guide approaching along the crest . |
| 19 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 20 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 21 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |