Example sentences of "at once the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At once the two of them fall into a kind of trance . |
| 2 | Nonetheless his reputation as at once the most searching and accessible of contemporary composers has not diminished . |
| 3 | In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves . |
| 4 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 5 | Her singing at fall of night , especially if we were alone together , soothed and fascinated me , as though it had been divine , at once the mightiest and the softest sound in the world . |
| 6 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 7 | At once the woman 's voice went cold . |
| 8 | At once the kneeling statues came to life . |
| 9 | Looking over his shoulder he saw at once the brass bedstead , and the sewing-machine table on top of which Stanley had said he would find the boxes of glass balls . |
| 10 | All at once the engine uttered a roar and the long silver pistons began to labour . |
| 11 | All at once the range of plants we can grow has extended to include many of the magically evocative creatures that we encounter on our annual run for the sun . |
| 12 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 13 | At once the teachers began running in Mould 's direction . |
| 14 | At once the tiny girl was crushed in a one-armed embrace from Richard that almost unbalanced them both . |
| 15 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 16 | At once the countess 's nasal voice arose behind them . |
| 17 | And , if you have a Barclays current account , you can experience at once the convenience of having both your savings and your current account under the same roof . |
| 18 | I wish it would n't go so fast ! ’ she thought — and at once the broomstick 's pace slowed . |
| 19 | However , Lord Redesdale thought that if the Government ever wanted the larger site , ‘ the truest economy would be to purchase at once the ground about Charles Street . |
| 20 | One can see at once the problem here is whether the faculties of , say , medicine and engineering are a good cross-section of the university . |
| 21 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 22 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 23 | All at once the fox leaps round , catches and kills the crow and makes a meal of it . |
| 24 | For all that we have said about the role of the country districts round — which applies as much to northern as to Italian cities — and the close relation , however ambivalent , of religious aspirations and the development of towns , it is in the end their place in the accumulation of wealth which marks them out in this age : they are at once the symbols and the centres of mammon ; in them gathered the moneyers who struck coin and the merchants who exchanged and accumulated it . |
| 25 | The Hurricanes dived on them , but at once the escorting fighters were on their tails ; at least two ‘ convoys ’ were noted of Ju87 , Hurricane , Bf109E in line astern , all firing . |
| 26 | M oral philosophers are accustomed to start from the individual pursuing his own ends ; at once the question arises ‘ Why should I prefer anyone else 's to my own ? ’ , and until it can be answered the advantage lies with the egoist . |
| 27 | At once the soldier stopped crying , the pain having disappeared ; but as soon as Bruce removed his hand , it returned . |
| 28 | At once the gangway came alive , trembling and shaking and bucking as forty feet slammed up it . |
| 29 | Come , Sergeant ! ’ it cried , and all at once the great yellow beast turned and climbed the far bank … and disappeared . |
| 30 | At once the big yellow dog began digging away at the hole in the bank . |