Example sentences of "almost at [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashman seems to make more whimsical use of the device of exit up-stage , re-entry stage right ( whether the idea is Ashman 's or Noelte 's , its use in duets where one knows the exiting character has a line to sing almost at once , soon becomes irritating ) . |
| 2 | Then , in that second of hushed silence before the screen and fanfare blaze out , there came from the middle of the auditorium a huge and shocked voice ‘ What the fookin''ell are yo ’ doin' ? ' , followed almost at once by two mighty smacks that could only have been someone being hit . |
| 3 | Macmillan established a personal relationship almost at once with Kennedy at their first meeting at Key West in March 1961 ; and Watkinson renewed the agreement on ‘ interdependence ’ during his visit to the States in May , during which prospects of future Anglo-American collaborative projects were optimistically discussed . |
| 4 | Almost at once , those who had most favoured the change start squealing . |
| 5 | Helen 's new employers departed mysteriously and suddenly , and Helen was sent to Rugby almost at once to help Mrs Sery , an ‘ excitable , merry French Woman ’ , with her young son . |
| 6 | They seem to be answered almost at once . |
| 7 | Almost at once , she knew what she must do . |
| 8 | Almost at once , there seemed to be a series of victories reported with which Wilson could not keep up . |
| 9 | All around lay old and rusting tools and equipment , but among the junk I found almost at once two perfect aids : a tyre lever and a heavy mallet for driving in mooring pegs . |
| 10 | Our improvised seats were frayed by the wind but still identified the place with certainty , and almost at once I spotted Gareth 's camera , prominently hanging , as he 'd said , from a branch . |
| 11 | It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , I fell almost at once into an exhausted sleep . |
| 13 | She froze , but almost at once gathered herself . |
| 14 | Generally they were booked months ahead , but there had been a cancellation on one leaving almost at once . |
| 15 | From Aisgill Summit , the railway , the road and the River Eden go hand in hand down Mallerstang , forced into close company by the impending slopes , and almost at once there appears on the right the magnificent spectacle of Hellgill Force where the infant Eden , thus far known as Hell Gill Beck , leaps in a waterfall of 60 feet over a limestone cliff and comes to maturity as the River Eden . |
| 16 | Philip sailed but was forced to turn back almost at once by the weather . |
| 17 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 18 | Coleridge became almost at once a leader of Bristol 's vigorous and combative intellectual life , in which the radical sympathies of a prosperous nonconformist community confronted the conservatism of wealthy merchants and professional men . |
| 19 | The most notable household items they had thought to bring with them were evidently ‘ some old Prints ’ , and almost at once Joseph Cottle was called upon to supply further essentials , including a kettle , a pair of candlesticks , a tin dustpan , a cheese toaster , two large tin spoons , a keg of porter , and a Bible . |
| 20 | His imaginative pulse quickened almost at once , and in the second week of May he was able to report.that no fewer than 1,500 lines of Osorio had been completed . |
| 21 | Dorothy 's acute and sympathetic judgement that Racedown summer led her to a similar conclusion almost at once . |
| 22 | Wordsworth arrived almost at once , and by 2 July Dorothy had also reached Lime Street , after being driven up from Dorset by Coleridge himself ‘ over forty miles of execrable road ’ . |
| 23 | But the collaboration was a predictable failure , and Coleridge , having written his own canto ‘ at full finger-speed ’ , found Wordsworth seated before a nearly blank sheet of paper with a look of ‘ humorous despondency ’ on his face.7sup5 ; A second attempt at joint composition followed almost at once , in the course of another tour , and although the two friends were no more successful than before at direct collaboration , a new and remarkable poem began to emerge none the less . |
| 24 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 25 | Chester and the Wordsworths were violently seasick almost at once . |
| 26 | She was a very pretty girl and made her presence felt almost at once . |
| 27 | The arrangements for demobilisation were based strictly on length of service , except for those girls who were married and they got out almost at once . |
| 28 | She came almost at once , in a series of tense repressed tremors that forced a dulled gasp from her . |
| 29 | It was the only place in the Forest where you could sit down carelessly , without getting up again almost at once and looking for somewhere else . |
| 30 | Almost at once she began to feel better . |