Example sentences of "at [adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost at once it swung open to let out a surge of laughter and music as a tall dark man with a scar on one cheek clapped Penry on the back and introduced himself to Leonora as Nick Wood , then beckoned to a tall , beautiful woman with a mane of ash-blonde hair , who excused herself from a group of people to come running to throw her arms round Penry 's neck . |
| 2 | Their eyes met , and all at once it seemed hard to breathe . |
| 3 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |
| 4 | Scoop-necked , and cut high on the hip , at least it felt safer than a bikini . |
| 5 | And if this was nothing more , at least it had all the trappings of a glamorous evening . |
| 6 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 7 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 8 | The second , which has only one complete sentence out of six units bounded by full stops , very clearly does make sense ( at least it seems fair to predict that for most people it will ) . |
| 9 | At least it seems aware of where its problems lie , and that is a good start . |
| 10 | That quite startled her and at least it gave Marguerite a starting point for conversation . |
| 11 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 12 | At least it started that way , then the sharkskin dress was rubbing against me and other things began to seem far away . |
| 13 | I 'm not sure about the scratchplate shape , but at least it shows some originality . |
| 14 | At least it covered all the sharp projections , and we discovered it could be cut ridiculously easy with a saw , to something like level with the surrounding crazy paving . |
| 15 | On these more complicated issues the short-paragraph style is less satisfactory , leading to over-simplification , but at least it puts these concerns on the green consumer 's agenda . |
| 16 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |