Example sentences of "[noun] at once [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 2 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 3 | She made none for herself , but left Rachaela at once with the mug in her hand . |
| 4 | How he was so oppressive , how he was so strong and hairy and his voice was so loud and when he washed of a morning he made splashes in the wash-basin and blew his nose into the water , both nostrils at once into the soapy water and … |
| 5 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |
| 6 | She had to put up her umbrella at once against the rain . |
| 7 | This mechanism accounts at once for the observation that limbs are truncated when the thickened ridge at the tip of the bud is removed . |
| 8 | On legal aid there is not clear recognition amongst the major commercial firms of the need to deploy much of the substantial funding that they provide in large measure for the profession in the defence at once of the legal aid scheme and of legal aid practitioners . |
| 9 | GUIL : ( Excitedly ) Out of the void , finally , a sound ; while on a boat ( admittedly ) outside the action ( admittedly ) the perfect and absolute silence of the wet lazy slap of water against water and the rolling creak of timber — breaks ; giving rise at once to the speculation or the assumption or the hope that something is about to happen ; a pipe is heard . |
| 10 | What is lost here is the sense of form as integral element , as the means , in fact , whereby a particular human need is met — ie is materially realised — in a way consonant at once with the levels of provision and " list of requirements " and with a certain way of life . |
| 11 | Craig made his way at once to the study , the desk was locked as he had expected . |
| 12 | Mr Fisher said Neill had perhaps taken too many initiatives at once in the past year . |
| 13 | Colt knew his target at once from the photograph that he had been given . |