Example sentences of "at [adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 2 | it is a funny film , you seen Roxanne where he plays a fucking funny , he has to think of twenty pornographic , the only women who can satisfy two by two women at once its got here , nature loving , too much , really love little bee , give a mat to sit on and stuff like that , your gon na fucking break that in a minute , time have you Mark ? |
| 3 | Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . ) |
| 4 | At once they moved back , releasing him , but stayed close enough to catch him if he fell . |
| 5 | At once they broke off , and in her honour played What a skin , what a bloom … |
| 6 | Impressed by what he saw , the emperor gave karate his stamp of approval and at once it became very popular . |
| 7 | She came and sat down beside me , and at once I felt very much better . |
| 8 | The cover of the directive features a cricketer in full protective kit , so I knew at once I had better find out what it was all about . |
| 9 | I knew at once I had never |
| 10 | At once I waved away the unjustly famous quotation which sprang with great obviousness to my mind . |
| 11 | All at once he seemed terribly far away . |
| 12 | Mr Beckenham had hold of her wrist still , and all at once he felt how slim it was . |
| 13 | At once he straightened up . |
| 14 | Then all at once he looked up , with a stare so sudden and urgent it was like a shout . |
| 15 | All at once he looked up . |
| 16 | At once he signed down to her to be silent . |
| 17 | All at once he pictured again the sun striking the glass and understood why it had done so . |
| 18 | At once he pulled away , confused and angry with himself . |
| 19 | At once he scrambled down . |
| 20 | Almost at once she came back into the kitchen , turned out the light , and left the flat . |
| 21 | All at once she fell back against her pillows , a grim smile playing about her mouth . |
| 22 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 23 | All at once she felt oddly threatened . |
| 24 | At once she sat up and crossed her hands in her lap . |
| 25 | well have they got to get rid of staff or not ? , cos the school that Gary 's at now they had like an emergency meeting on Monday |
| 26 | anyway erm they started at Well you know quite an easy job but the the er s their wage was about sev I I I I forget . |
| 27 | At 11.15am they gave up the attempt , and as the tide was rising over the reef , decided to seek the help of the fishermen in the lagoon . |
| 28 | With no might duty neighbourhood police usually avoid loitering youths , drunks , and other might people , something which at least one complained about , leaving these categories to the section or reserve police who possess in less proportion the skills required for effective community policing . |
| 29 | Even if the messages were not true ( and she had no hope that they might be true ) at least somebody believed sufficiently in their truth to pay cash for them , to rent hoardings and to put up posters for them , and that in itself offered some kind of alternative : Christianity meant nothing to her , but she was glad that in despite of her mother 's defection , it existed . |
| 30 | In the same week , at least somebody behaved youthfully , if not something else . |