Example sentences of "at [adv] [pron] [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 | Thesiger LJ said that arbitrators incurred " enormous " expense in calling witnesses , " which was entirely thrown away , for as soon as the arbitrators saw the property they knew at once what ought to be done " . |
| 4 | Rather , ‘ the censure of this essay must be on a somewhat different ground — that of my wishing to have all at once what can only be had in succession in an historical process , a co-existence of the primitive and the most highly sophisticated ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She knew at once it could not be Ruth . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All at once I could see Galway Bay . |
| 11 | And at once I could do it . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At once he would sense my withdrawal , and was sad and silent for a while . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All at once she could breathe again . |
| 16 | All at once she could n't breathe . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All at once she could not speak . |
| 19 | At once you will have indulgence for all the sins which you confess with a contrite heart . |
| 20 | ‘ And if you manages to blow them all out at once you can make a wish , ’ said Carrie . |
| 21 | Starting at 7.30pm it will be attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Ellesmere Port and Neston , Councillor and Mrs Tony Sherlock . |
| 22 | I did n't have to pay mine back at well I ca n't afford anything really ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 26 | I think we 're in a nest of greedy , self-centred , corrupt old men , of whom at least one would stick at nothing to preserve his privileges . |
| 27 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 28 | Or there may be a list of possible answers , of which at least one must be ticked . |
| 29 | At least one must be a proper subcomponent . ) |
| 30 | There is no Building Control requirement to provide toilets for the public , but if they are provided , then at least one must be suitable for use by the disabled . |