Example sentences of "at [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had felt greatly excited as he and his father got up at 5am to travel by bus and train from their home in Heywood , Lancashire to Ben Rhydding near Ilkley where the meeting was to take place . |
| 2 | Unlike me , he at once felt at home in that charged , aggressive , almost militaristic atmosphere , joined heartily in the drinking and singing , and soon had all the students on his side , which was fortunate for me , because el Americano 's prestige deflected a terrible submerged violence and hatred that might well have done me harm . |
| 3 | While western medicine has always tended to concentrate on the elimination of germs , the Unani doctors tried not to lose sight of the patient as a whole being ; they conceived of therapy in the original Greek sense of healing , at once taking into account physical , mental and spiritual well-being . |
| 4 | I was at once despatched to X-ray , and there in a different NHS nightshirt , things took their confirmatory course . |
| 5 | Hazel slipped out of the burrow into the run and at once came upon Strawberry busily thumping a hind leg on the hard earth floor . |
| 6 | He had lain wakeful beside Anna in the bed that had not been quite wide enough for twenty years and felt himself to be all at once boiling with misery and quite immobilized by it . |
| 7 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 8 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 9 | Contact with it turns new wine sour , crops touched by it become barren , grafts die , seeds in gardens are dried up , the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled , hives of bees die , even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust , and a horrible smell fills the air ; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison … |
| 10 | The darkness that had possessed her at once scattered into light , and the joy that replaced it was too powerful to contain . |
| 11 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 12 | They had to achieve a total military victory in order also to impose the total political victory which would at once provide ex post legitimation for the rising and enable them to ensure that there would be no return to pre-July 1936 conditions . |
| 13 | When Eisenhower promised during the campaign that , if elected , he would at once fly to victory . |
| 14 | His papers were at once sealed by order of the king ; and in the 1680s Colbert de Croissy built up a large working archive covering the years from 1660 onwards . |
| 15 | A question at once comes to mind : how does one find qualified personnel to operate so many nuclear power stations ? |
| 16 | However such applications must be looked at carefully bearing in mind the whole environmental question . |
| 17 | Might at well stay in town . |
| 18 | Points should never be worshipped to excess , and the unflagging zeal of bibliographical mudlarkers prodding for new ones should be mistrusted or at least treated with caution . |
| 19 | The MGM Building and City Hall were still closed for business , but Susan had a feeling they were at least peopled with night watchmen and janitors . |
| 20 | At least go to dinner . |
| 21 | Let's hope he is able to get in some training at his field hospital so that he at least stays in touch with his fitness . |
| 22 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 23 | By the time she came back , with any luck , she would have emerged from her current emotional upheaval , able at least to act with indifference towards Jake . |
| 24 | Thus , although the bonanza expected by some has not yet materialised , exploration has far from exhausted the possibilities , and the results have at least demonstrated beyond question that gas accumulated and survived in producible quantities in the Eastern Overthrust Belt , despite the disturbed condition of the strata and the passage of time . |
| 25 | No single word accurately represents the conceptual basis for the skills in question but information skills at least allows for flexibility . |
| 26 | The Surveyors-General frequently complained of depredations by local people upon the forest woods , and on one occasion at least appealed for aid to the titular head of the Forest administration . |
| 27 | The model agency office was in a tall old house in Clifton and Paula splashed out some of her savings on a taxi so that she could at least arrive in style . |
| 28 | The facade of the building at least escaped from rigour . |
| 29 | I know that you two fight from time to time , but let her at least leave in peace . |
| 30 | In Rutland at least demand for wage labour was curtailed by restrictions on com growing imposed by the lack of means of shipment , as in Leicestershire , where labourers seem to have been even thinner on the ground ; much effort went into stock rearing , many farmers kept above-average flocks of sheep , and there was abundant fatting pasture in the Vale of Catmose . |