Example sentences of "[verb] at [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
| 2 | The costs and benefits of the scheme are being looked at closely by the regional flood defence committee and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 3 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 4 | But one practical contribution could be made at once by the IBA and the Governors of the BBC . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was opened at once by the Town Clerk . |
| 7 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 8 | Given that precedent , the institution by Thomas Attwood , a banker , of the Birmingham Political Union of the Lower and Middle Classes , to be followed at once by the creation all over the country of other political unions , must have seemed ominous . |
| 9 | The result , declared at 2am by the chief executive of the local council , Mr Brian Bird , was hailed by whistles , cheers and chants of ‘ Kinnock , Kinnock ! ’ |