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 .
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