Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] least " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honecker begs in vain , then finally asks : ‘ Can I at least leave my luggage here for a bit ? ’ |
| 2 | This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window . |
| 3 | The decision to believe was one for which I at least was fully responsible . |
| 4 | But she was an expert and by watching her I at least gained some confidence , enough to feel I could try it myself one day . |
| 5 | ‘ Can I at least lock up ? ’ |
| 6 | I at least wanted to offer you something to eat . ’ |
| 7 | Sorry ; etcetera ) as well as the slightly perverse habit of calling all young girls ‘ madam ’ and all old women ‘ girls , ’ it was a charm to which I at least was quite prophylactically immune . |
| 8 | Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that . |
| 9 | ‘ Could I at least ask a few questions ? ’ |
| 10 | This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ . |
| 11 | Before I was pregnant , I at least was a distraction for him — I kept him away from her tent , but now his favours were of a material kind , she did not like it . |
| 12 | Oh , yes , ’ he added when Robyn looked up at him in surprise , ‘ I did a little research on you before inviting you to tender for this job — I at least go about things in a methodical and planned way . |
| 13 | I at least was never fooled . |
| 14 | But note how I at least attempt to show HOW I formed my opinion . |
| 15 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
| 16 | There was enough dirt on his knees to grow potatoes , and his short trousers obviously belonged to someone at least three years younger , but he gave her a toothless grin , slid back in his seat and picked his nose . |
| 17 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |
| 18 | But there was someone at least in that dreadful place who had a thought for others besides himself . |
| 19 | You might take comfort from the fact that someone at least is astonished by the depth of your knowledge . |
| 20 | One of its most distinguished distinctive characteristics is the size of site which we know from experience which the county Harrogate Borough and ourselves at least have already here can be the order of magnitude of fifty hectares . |
| 21 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 22 | ROBIN Reid guaranteed himself at least a bronze medal when he reached the semi-finals in boxing 's light-middleweight division . |
| 23 | The French and Norman lands matter most to Waleran , who can wonder that he 's gone over there and made himself at least acceptable to Geoffrey , rather than risk being dispossessed . |
| 24 | I agreed and I put him under training for Mosquito , and to the best of my knowledge ( and this is only a guess ) he did over 70 sorties , got himself at least one DFC , if not two , and became a very worthwhile member of the Pathfinder Force . |
| 25 | So he 's separated himself at least from that he 's pu he 's put at least one barrier between him . |
| 26 | ‘ The secretaries were determined that somebody at least should make use of them , and there was much pressure put on me to do so . |
| 27 | During 1990 AI recorded almost 1,000 death sentences , of which at least 750 resulted in executions . |
| 28 | With no might duty neighbourhood police usually avoid loitering youths , drunks , and other might people , something which at least one complained about , leaving these categories to the section or reserve police who possess in less proportion the skills required for effective community policing . |
| 29 | However , when these differences were revealed it was difficult to know which side feared cancelling the project most — ironically it might be the donor with its vested interest in a cumulative increase in annual disbursements , rather than the government with several hundred projects of which at least a half could be in the same state . |
| 30 | The Hungarian minority was already complaining bitterly then of persecution — their plight widely regarded as the unfortunate flip-side of Ceausescu 's ultra-nationalism , which at least kept the Russians at bay . |