Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes .
2 the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks .
3 When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act .
4 He dialled Essex and , the gods relenting , got through at once to the man he wanted .
5 Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War .
6 The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things .
7 Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’
8 Heath was attempting to break with the politics of accommodation , the ‘ triangular system ’ of government/union/employer consultation which had been growing up at least since the war .
9 Idealism has a long history in philosophy , going back at least to the Irish philosopher Berkeley , and it is sometimes attributed , as it was by Marx , to Plato .
10 Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period .
11 Their history goes back at least to the Ordovician , although some of the Palaeozoic asteroids are distantly related , if at all , to the living species .
12 The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century .
13 Evidence of Dalmatians ( whom the Italians called Schiavone or Slavs ) working in Italy goes back at least to the time of Radovan .
14 An alternative usage , which goes back at least to the seventeenth century , made " family " a widely dispersed group of relatives , loosely linked by ties of " blood " and affinity , but not necessarily associated with any one household .
15 Boxing Day morning was grey and overcast but the rain promised to hold off at least until the evening .
16 The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell .
17 The idea itself went back at least to the 1850s when such boards had been set up in shipbuilding on the Wear and for the silk trade in Macclesfield .
18 The roots of Serbian nationalism go back at least to the Empire of Stevan Dušan in the fourteenth century .
19 There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices .
20 The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s .
21 In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage .
22 The wish to discern a framework for the Earth itself is something which dates back at least to the time of Ptolemy .
23 Blueboy 's songs , all clocking in at well below the boredom threshold , are a naively affecting clutch of simple , sparse tunes , engagingly ramshackle and , except for a nostalgic over-employment of the jingle-jangle pedal , refreshingly unreliant on an arsenal of guitar effects .
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