Example sentences of "at once in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary 's confirmation of her intended marriage reached Coleridge just before Christmas , and he replied at once in a letter which was his brave and gentle farewell . |
| 2 | Serve at once in a warmed dish . |
| 3 | When everyone is speaking at once in a meeting , keep talking in a calm , reasonable manner . |
| 4 | The advantage of the Helblaster is that it can fire several shots at once in a devastating volley . |
| 5 | I felt the blood rush to my centre — legs , fingertips , head all emptying at once in a rush — |
| 6 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 7 | It was remarkable in the circumstances that the First Symphony sounds as though it was written all at once in a burst of sustained inspiration . |
| 8 | Supply new information gradually , not all at once in an overwhelming chunk . |
| 9 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |