Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , er the C B I and other bodies are pressing for them to come down at once , er John Major has said it 's only a question of time . |
| 2 | As always I got up at once so that I might cherish the ninety minutes until we assembled for work — minutes that were mine — not the authorities . |
| 3 | I got out at 5am and left . |
| 4 | I woke up at about nine o'clock this morning . |
| 5 | I came back at once . |
| 6 | I came back at about eight this morning in time to get his breakfast and found the dog outside the back door , whining . ’ |
| 7 | I cheered up at once . |
| 8 | Well it 's he 's , he gets up at six in the morning and I get up at about five o'clock and I go to bed later than him anyway normally , so it must be |
| 9 | I get in at just before three o'clock . |
| 10 | I introduced a weekly Sunday series called ‘ The Symphony Hour ’ , which I repeated in at least a dozen other cities around the world over the next 50 years . |
| 11 | I looked up at where the pipe went through the wall into the prison . |
| 12 | I do n't know if the I did n't see the water over it because we went , Jim and I went out at about erm ten o'clock |
| 13 | Right now I do n't want to get you up I want to encourage you to set your alarm for seven o'clock , quite low , and when I come on at about two minutes past just snuggle up to your wireless and enjoy the music and the news and the views about the religious scene in and around North Yorkshire and beyond . |
| 14 | I stood up at once . |
| 15 | So I backed off at once and resumed my patient waiting . |
| 16 | Sir Henry and I jumped up at once . |
| 17 | The rate of pay for a navvy was 6½d per hour , which averaged out at about 28 shillings per week . |
| 18 | The tradition , which goes back at least 2,500 years , continued until the early part of this century . |
| 19 | Plain food and good beer are to be had in Berlin 's oldest tavern , Zur Letzten Instanz ( 2125528 e ) , in the Waisenstrasse , which goes back at least to 1621 . |
| 20 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 21 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 22 | An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household . |
| 23 | The fire , which broke out at about 1.30am , destroyed a 25m by 30m patch of gorse on the Gandale Farm part of the training area . |
| 24 | Last night a benefit concert was set to take place at the Bristol Bierkeller , featuring Extreme Noise Terror , perhaps Britain 's foremost thrash band , now legendary for turning out songs which clock in at under one second . |
| 25 | Many local authorities used the ‘ direct grant ’ schools ( which took in at least 25% of their children by merit from maintained primary schools and had fee-payers as well ) as the top rung of their local educational ladder . |
| 26 | It is likely also that works like Aristotle 's Masterpiece , which went through at least 25 editions between 1684 and 1930 , were a common form for the distribution of sexual knowledge , until attacked by the medical profession in the 1930s . |
| 27 | Newens 's views were perhaps influenced by his contacts with Ceauşescu and he had written or edited at least three books about Ceauşescu : Nicolae Ceauşescu — the Man , His Ideas and the Achievements on the Road to Socialism ( which appeared in at least three editions between 1972 and 1978 to satisfy popular demand ) , Talking with Nicolae Ceauşescu , and Nicolae Ceauşescu — The Effort to Create a Modern Romania . |
| 28 | The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy . |
| 29 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 30 | The main survey , which did not give any signs of unduly high interest rates , suggests that one example which we did find in the group discussions is as rare as it is wicked : terms for a £100 loan as high as £10 a week over 15 weeks — which works out at over 1,500 per cent . |