Example sentences of "at [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of them send stuff that might be the greatest thing they 've ever produced , but looked at objectively it may not be up to much . |
| 2 | If anyone thinks it is easy trying to get 30,000 cars out of a car park at once they should try it . |
| 3 | At once we can see that this is far to large to be stored as a single stitch pattern , as this number exceeds 16,000 . |
| 4 | If the incoming Conservative Government had not swept them away at once it would today seem no less difficult to abolish the ‘ social service , of subsidised food than the ‘ social service ’ of subsidised housing . |
| 5 | She knew at once it could not be Ruth . |
| 6 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 7 | Unwisely , I let Dana see my drafts of these poems , and at once I could sense his disapproval , his jealousy even , that I had written the poems myself . |
| 8 | All at once I could see Galway Bay . |
| 9 | And at once I could do it . ’ |
| 10 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 11 | At once he would sense my withdrawal , and was sad and silent for a while . |
| 12 | What a goose poor Scott ( who will get his liver fit for pâté de Strasburg with vexation ) must be , not to say at once he 'll build anything . |
| 13 | All at once she could breathe again . |
| 14 | All at once she could n't breathe . |
| 15 | For all at once she could feel sweeping in on her a sense of utter desolation , the like of which she had n't known for years . |
| 16 | All at once she could not speak . |
| 17 | At once you will have indulgence for all the sins which you confess with a contrite heart . |
| 18 | ‘ And if you manages to blow them all out at once you can make a wish , ’ said Carrie . |
| 19 | Starting at 7.30pm it will be attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Ellesmere Port and Neston , Councillor and Mrs Tony Sherlock . |
| 20 | I did n't have to pay mine back at well I ca n't afford anything really ! |
| 21 | Er Madam Speaker , I I agree with er the honourable gentleman that it 's extremely important that the various agencies do play a part in working together to ensure effective action with minimum bureaucracy and I know that the honourable gentleman has been anxious to ensure that that happens in his own constituency and his own area where he is dealing with the problems of high unemployment er and the fall out from the closures of pits in his area and if the honourable gentleman has any specific er er measures which he would like us to look at then I 'd be very happy to consider those . |
| 22 | If we knew what price were at then it would give me more er confidence to know where we stand and how to go about it . |
| 23 | Er er , I 've , er I just I 'm just saying that , er , that , that last year er , when I made a few remarks that they were misquoted by Reuters and we did leave the meeting and the share price dropped by er , several P and we had to send out a correcting statement so this year we 've taken the precaution of issuing a press release er , at the same time as er , er , I 'm making these remarks so I hope at least they wo n't be misinterpreted . |
| 24 | well , at least they wo n't be looking int' bungalow will they , with it all being down , |
| 25 | So at least they wo n't get done for it cos they 'd probably go up to disciplinary and stuff would n't they ? |
| 26 | Oh whatever , at least they wo n't rot |
| 27 | They may not always exhibit the wisdom of Solomon but at least they might know where to draw the line . |
| 28 | At least they might have learned something about attitude , which John McEnroe believes to be the root cause of Britain 's tennis predicament . |
| 29 | ‘ At least they might not be . |
| 30 | Early contacts with leading Labour figures suggested that on this question at least they might prove more flexible than the Conservatives . |