Example sentences of "at once [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Washington police fired tear gas at them and the gas was blown at once across the White House garden . |
| 2 | To demonstrate that , he is happy to show off work on new City dealer boards devised in Belfast that allow a foreign exchange trader or the like to listen in to some 20 phone conversations at once via a sophisticated touch screen . |
| 3 | He was then to return home at once via Montreal , using his Thomas Leavy identity on re-entering the United States so as to avoid any tell-tale entry stamp in his passport . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , I fell almost at once into an exhausted sleep . |
| 5 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |
| 6 | Within the last 20 years it was the practice here to pen the sheep for clipping and for the fleeces to be thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery , who put them at once into the barn for storage . |
| 7 | The thought of Joe came at once into her mind , but where could Joe be ? |
| 8 | He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car . |
| 9 | Adapting his subject to his captive audience , he plunged at once into parliamentary small talk about the newly appointed committee , bobbing up and down between Berowne and Dalgliesh like a small craft on bumpy water . |
| 10 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 11 | The former branch of this first dichotomy takes written language at once into a mode which speakers seldom use . |
| 12 | ( x ) Put the slide at once into a Coplin jar filled with the same fixative and leave for at least 20 min . |
| 13 | Then Frank bursting at once into song , laughing and winking at me . |
| 14 | Tulagai slid almost at once into the vacant place . |
| 15 | Hair combings from her brush went at once into hiding — a small stoup , designed for Holy Water , concealed their rather sordid twirls — in accordance with the unspoken law that anything ugly should be put out of sight , which applied to more things than hair combings . |
| 16 | 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 … |
| 17 | The familiar stress on the first word in the sentence took her at once into the stuffy room in south London . |
| 18 | The bearer plunged at once into the warren of tiny streets , alleyways and passages between stalls that made up the area loosely known as the Bazaars . |
| 19 | Of course , trajectories started very near the origin , which first strike the return plane close to R or L , spiral at once into C+ ; this is how one determines experimentally the precise parameter value at which the strange set becomes attracting . |
| 20 | I was plunged at once into an immediate round of familiarisation of completely new and strange devices that were the work-a-day tools of Bomber Command . |
| 21 | His touch is sure from the start ; Ravel 's L'Enfant et les Sortileges he paces beautifully , and by making his fantastic characters tiny beside a huge , solid door , takes us at once into a child 's world to be thrilled and frightened . |
| 22 | For over Rosemary 's shoulder she saw at once beyond the short width of the hall and into the sitting-room — and Rosemary was doing some entertaining herself . |
| 23 | Not all at once of course . |
| 24 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 25 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 26 | In 1988 , she travelled around with an imposing security squad of African-American women , hinting at once of black nationalism , gay pride and eerie robotic conformity . |
| 27 | Most people think at once of their bank manager . |
| 28 | The Memorandum on the Mental Health Act 1983 ( 1987 ) issued by the then Department of Health and Social Security states , at paragraph 289 , that whilst calling upon the assistance of the police should be kept to a minimum , ‘ the police should always be informed at once of the escape or absence without leave of a patient who is considered dangerous or who is subject to restriction on discharge under Part III of the Act . ’ |
| 29 | It would be relatively simple — she could think at once of how it could be done : the casual enquiry of a mutual friend with whom she still exchanged Christmas cards , the phone call to the college at which he had been a lecturer . |
| 30 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |