Example sentences of "i [prep] least " in BNC.
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1 | Honecker begs in vain , then finally asks : ‘ Can I at least leave my luggage here for a bit ? ’ |
2 | This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window . |
3 | The decision to believe was one for which I at least was fully responsible . |
4 | But she was an expert and by watching her I at least gained some confidence , enough to feel I could try it myself one day . |
5 | ‘ Can I at least lock up ? ’ |
6 | I at least wanted to offer you something to eat . ’ |
7 | Sorry ; etcetera ) as well as the slightly perverse habit of calling all young girls ‘ madam ’ and all old women ‘ girls , ’ it was a charm to which I at least was quite prophylactically immune . |
8 | Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that . |
9 | ‘ Could I at least ask a few questions ? ’ |
10 | This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ . |
11 | Before I was pregnant , I at least was a distraction for him — I kept him away from her tent , but now his favours were of a material kind , she did not like it . |
12 | Oh , yes , ’ he added when Robyn looked up at him in surprise , ‘ I did a little research on you before inviting you to tender for this job — I at least go about things in a methodical and planned way . |
13 | I at least was never fooled . |
14 | But note how I at least attempt to show HOW I formed my opinion . |
15 | Erm should I at least be prepared to again stick something in the newsletter about . |
16 | I am familiar with the components of your personality , true , as I am familiar with the liquors in that cabinet over there , but throwing all the different liquors together at random wo n't make a cocktail , not one that 's palatable to me at least . |
17 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
18 | Astonishing to me at least , since it 's a mountain I 'm intimate with from its friendly north face , and had little notion of its dramatic cliffs lurking sneakily behind me all those times I sat innocently chewing chocolate at the top . |
19 | Now for me at least the light had been turned on . |
20 | If anthologies ever needed any justification they received it for me at least during those years . |
21 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
22 | The fact that so many people object so strenuously to the feminist ‘ attack on words ’ suggests , to me at least , that this issue of sexism in language is not the trivial diversion it is often made out to be . |
23 | Sticking it down puts the paper under tension and , for me at least changes the surface qualities of the picture . |
24 | I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work . |
25 | The results appear , to me at least , very mechanical : the formula obstructs creativity excessively . |
26 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |
27 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
28 | I 'd I 'd like you to write letters for me at least this week cos I 'm going to be |
29 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
30 | Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family . |