Example sentences of "i at " in BNC.

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1 Honecker begs in vain , then finally asks : ‘ Can I at least leave my luggage here for a bit ? ’
2 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 ’ .
3 I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools .
4 I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train .
5 If I actually follow you down the street in order to be sure that you do n't throw it away or forget to post it , for instance , then I at one and the same time become certain that you 've posted it and display a lack of faith that you will do so .
6 This time I at least got past the lochan and up on to the boulder field that leads to the window .
7 I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything .
8 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 .
9 Now , to cover all eventualities , I at once began to work on both lungs .
10 It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater .
11 The decision to believe was one for which I at least was fully responsible .
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 . ’
14 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 .
15 But she was an expert and by watching her I at least gained some confidence , enough to feel I could try it myself one day .
16 ‘ Can I at least lock up ? ’
17 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
18 After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment .
19 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 ? ) …
20 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 .
21 Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep .
22 I at least wanted to offer you something to eat . ’
23 Sorry ; etcetera ) as well as the slightly perverse habit of calling all young girls ‘ madam ’ and all old women ‘ girls , ’ it was a charm to which I at least was quite prophylactically immune .
24 Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that .
25 He wrote : " I at last scarce ever went out and nothing occupied my thought but how to escape from this bloody country . "
26 ‘ Neither do I at the moment , ’ Ian admitted .
27 ‘ Could I at least ask a few questions ? ’
28 This set Eliot on to a technical disquisition which I at least was unable to follow ; but it included the fact that , in order to preserve a certain particularly rare cheese or at least to promote its further maturity , the owners had ‘ buried it ’ .
29 On meeting him again , I at once noticed that he was looking unusually well and bronzed .
30 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 .
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