Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] least [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whitehead kept Oxford going … or at least kept them in touch |
| 2 | The Neanderthals were , however , physically weaker , and so it was ‘ reasonable ’ to wipe them out , or at least to subjugate them to the extent that eventually they died out . |
| 3 | It is vital that all unsold tickets are returned to the organiser by the date specified ( or at least notify them by telephone that tickets are not yet sold ) . |
| 4 | It was a stormy meeting during which Callaghan was one of those who clashed angrily with Morrison , arguing that the abandonment of the free vote meant pressurising them to change their convictions , or at least to keep them in cold storage . |
| 5 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |