Example sentences of "[conj] at once [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mentally , ’ said Grainne , half to herself , and at once Bec said , ‘ Yes . |
| 2 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 3 | I would gladly say , ‘ Heil Hitler ! ’ and at once part company with him , realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to tlatter him with an imitation which he has always disdained . |
| 4 | Ethel spoke the words of the spell , and at once Mildred was standing before them . |
| 5 | He cast around for somewhere to put them , and at once Mei Ling took them and gave them to a waiting servant . |
| 6 | Instead he covered her quivering lips with his own , and at once Robbie felt the familiar tightness in her chest , the growing warmth in the pit of her stomach . |
| 7 | The smell of leather permeated the air and at once Emily was back in her father 's storehouse where he had kept mountains of skins ready to be cut and fashioned into boots and shoes . |
| 8 | ‘ Tara has always been remote , ’ said Raynor without expression , and at once Grainne thought : and that is not a good thing ! |
| 9 | For a moment the dial shines in the night and at once Timmy stirs . |
| 10 | Sandor keyed the PDU and at once Rostov sensed the relaxation of tension which went round the bridge . |
| 11 | The hatch bolts exploded in rapid-fire sequence , and at once Rostov forced both arms up to chest level and punched them forward , tearing the extruded foam casing . |
| 12 | It was only the third script to be completed ( Coburn 's ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ serial , retitled ‘ Doctor Who and 100,000 BC ’ , and John Lucarotti 's ‘ Journey to Cathay ’ preceding it ) , but at once Whitaker felt he had found the right niche for Doctor Who 's presentation of science fiction . |
| 13 | ‘ I expect Lubor is busy beavering away back in his office ? ’ she asked as a warm-up question before she got down to basics — and immediately wished that she had n't because at once Ven 's expression darkened , and as he raised an aristocratic eyebrow she knew instantly that all affability was gone . |
| 14 | Hence Jacques Derrida 's influential concept of ‘ différance ’ ( translated in English as at once difference and deferral ) , a concept enabling us to ‘ reconsider all the pairs of opposites on which philosophy is constructed and on which our discourse lives , not in order to see opposition erase itself but to see what indicates that each of the terms must appear as the différance of the other , as the other different and deferred in the economy of the same ’ . |