Example sentences of "i [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |
| 2 | I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools . |
| 3 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 4 | I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night . |
| 5 | Now , to cover all eventualities , I at once began to work on both lungs . |
| 6 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 7 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 8 | In Sanity , Madness , and the Family , R.D. Laing and Aaron Esterson point up , with a clarity which I at once recognised and was astonished by , the importance of attributions within the family . |
| 9 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 10 | I at once informed Mr Blair of this and I am aware that he wrote you to say that my present attitude was distinctly negative . |
| 11 | On meeting him again , I at once noticed that he was looking unusually well and bronzed . |
| 12 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 13 | ‘ I at once spoke to His Majesty , ’ Wigram later wrote , ‘ who quite rightly said that there was no use shilly-shallying on an occasion like this , and he would proceed south that night . ’ |
| 14 | I at once , Stefan , there was an , I was anything , just . |