Example sentences of "at once [coord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 2 | The eyes fastened on Dinah at once and scarcely left her . |
| 3 | ‘ Shih Clarac , ’ he answered , distancing the man at once and subtly reminding him of their relative status . |
| 4 | At the Chester Beatty Institute , it was suggested that nitrogen mustards might alkylate two adjacent molecules at once and so link them together . |
| 5 | The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank . |
| 6 | Her own sleep the light , fragmented pre-waking kind by this time , Maria realised what was happening at once and merely gave him a sleepily complacent smile , pleased to see the disturbance in his eyes as he regarded her suspiciously . |
| 7 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |