Example sentences of "at [adv] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah but it 's still making me confused I 'm thinking about too much at once it 's making it worse . |
2 | ‘ No poem of mine was composed under circumstances more pleasant for me to remember than this , ’ Wordsworth wrote : Cottle 's home in Wine Street was probably the setting in which ‘ Tintern Abbey ’ reached written form , and almost at once it was chosen to take a place of honour as the last of the Lyrical Ballads . |
3 | Almost at once it was opened , not wide , as he obviously expected , but just to a slit — enough to pass out a note . |
4 | ‘ At least it 's made in the genuine outdoor manner with the billy of water suspended from an iron bar over the flames . |
5 | And it , it becomes you 'd never actually get the thing printed and you 'd never actually get the thing distributed because you , you , you 're wondering what to put in , what not to put in as it were and sticking to the specifics er at least it 's getting it 's getting something out and I do n't , personally I do n't see any , any real problem in personalizing it further and as much to indicate , right , without obvious prejudice to the new union erm to indicate er in , in some general or specific sense , if that does n't sound like sort of like contradictory , on on the , the , the betterment of , of representation for members within , within Northumberland come unison . |
6 | ‘ At least it 's stopped raining , ’ Maggie said . |
7 | ‘ At least it 's keeping what blood he 's got left in his head . ’ |
8 | Yeah but at least it 's keeping them occupied . |
9 | ( Not as good as a giggle , but at least it 's relieved his embarrassment . ) |
10 | Ah he said he was go he promised that he was going to bring a new disk , and then he had n't and then he did this and I thought mm I 'm not going to get a new disk out of him now it 's out of warranty and at least it 's working now and |
11 | gon na be next thing , at least it 's gon na be right time cos summer 's coming up , so I reckon she 'll pick it up pretty quick , I do n't think you 'll have |
12 | There you are , but at least it 's paying towards it . |
13 | For all that the Government is making a bit of er er idiot of itself by not embracing the things that it needs to embrace the things it needs to do , at least it 's saying that it wo n't do them . |
14 | It wo n't be the greatest place you 've ever lived , I know , but at least it 's going to be dry and … ’ |
15 | ‘ At least it 's going to be dry . ’ |
16 | I ask that at this stage at least it be kept confidential among us , as it could be understood in the wrong way . |
17 | Thus at least it is written . |
18 | THE British economy may not exactly be booming , but at least it is picking itself up . |
19 | Certainly one can consent to wounds in the course of surgery , at least it is thought to be so if there is a sound benefit , e.g. sex change . |
20 | It took a long time for the plumber to come round but at least it was done , you know that day . |
21 | Or at least it was withdrawn as far as er railway engines were concerned . |
22 | Erm it was still pretty marginal er but er at least it was opened and erm in eighteen er it carried on until , in eighteen seventy , seventy one , the line was extended back to or a station roughly halfway between the two . |
23 | At least it was giving me a weekend on my boat . |