Example sentences of "see at [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings .
2 One can see at once the problem here is whether the faculties of , say , medicine and engineering are a good cross-section of the university .
3 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 .
4 Kluck 's was a fateful decision , and Galliéni , studying maps and reports in his Paris headquarters , saw at once the manner in which to deliver a decisive blow .
5 Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity .
6 He drew back , looking at her again , seeing at once the reflection of his love , there in her eyes .
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