Example sentences of "[pron] at one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now I 've done removals before then , not so much now , but I at one time used to be out on the road doing removals myself very often and I would get in for about seven o'clock in the evening get a quick grab something to eat , rush round this place , put the fires on and get it ready . |
| 3 | Also now and then someone at one of the two tables might look at the other table with a sneer or an ugly remark . |
| 4 | ‘ He is not — nor is he likely to be as far as I can make out — although Matt dropped a hint that there had been someone at one stage . |
| 5 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 6 | In a long account of this hunt , Green refers to himself at one point as being in the ‘ plebeian party . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Through all the exhaustion and fear of the disastrous 1986 climb , Kurt Diemberger felt himself at one with creation , part of the ‘ endless knot ’ which put him in harmony with the cosmos and with a force which in the end was to save his life . ’ |
| 8 | Howard imagines himself at one with the infinite . |
| 9 | Batty went head first over the top of somebody at one point , thereby earing the rage of the City crowd . |
| 10 | With the council now agreeing with the district auditor about the unlawfulness of the deals , which at one time involved a notional £6bn , the banks are the only parties arguing that the transactions should be enforced . |
| 11 | Young led , in terrace parlance , the steaming in , which at one stage involved at least 10 players with punches appearing to be thrown . |
| 12 | TODAY 'S excellent programme at Cheltenham has not been ruined by the hard ground to the extent which at one time appeared likely and there are two bonus runners , namely the champion hurdler , Beech Road in the Charles Heidsieck Champagne Bula Hurdle , and the Queen Mother Two Mile Champion Chase winner Barnbrook Again in the A.F.Budge Handicap Chase . |
| 13 | The England striker 's 20 goals have brightened his club 's otherwise moderate campaign which at one stage threatened to end in relegation to the Second Division . |
| 14 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 15 | Annesley inherited a substantial estate in Co Down , which at one stage covered not only the demesne and town of Castlewellan but the seaside resort of Newcastle and a large swathe of the Mountains of Mourne ( including Slieve Donard ) , which , as Percy French sang , ‘ sweep down to the sea ’ . |
| 16 | As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job . |
| 17 | At one end is the raised stone floor which at one time must have been a sleeping area . |
| 18 | Originally there was considerable variety among the cattle of Wales , which at one time included the Glamorgan , said to have been an ancient breed of doubtful origin , possibly partly Norman or from a Devon cross . |
| 19 | However , there can be problems , specifically because of the fashion for breeding it as small as possible , which at one time was taken to dangerous extremes . |
| 20 | This concludes attempts on the line , started by Paul Pritchard a couple of years ago , which at one time featured a glued-in peg in a pocket , although this was pretty short lived . |
| 21 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 22 | Depending on how the aircraft is flown , if the mixture is leaned right off , fuel burn will go down to about 80 gallons an hour , but at maximum take-off power the aircraft will burn almost 300 gallons an hour , which at one gallon ever 12 seconds is quicker than one can get water out of a household tap ! |
| 23 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 24 | Rowland used The Observer to fight non-media battles , notably over control of the Harrods store , which at one time had been part of the House of Fraser group . |
| 25 | The 100 index , which at one stage had been 6.5 points down , recovered strongly to be up 11.1 at 2858.1 in very thin trading . |
| 26 | It is important to note in this context that courts have an inherent power to permit anyone to act as advocate , though this is seldom exercised except for the massive exception which at one time allowed police officers to act as prosecutors in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 27 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 28 | So the Fosse Way , which at one time had been the main road from medieval Coventry to Leicester , was ordered in the Sharnford award of 1765 to be ‘ of the same width as it hath heretofore usually been ’ . |
| 29 | One of the most widespread language families in Siberia was that now known as Samoed , the speakers of which at one time occupied a large part of southern Siberia from the Irtysh to the Yenisei , including the Altal-Sayan mountain region . |
| 30 | Can I sa , I 'll ask another question tha , since we 're talking about erm er , advances er which at one time came under the general heading , feminism , would you call yourself a feminist ? |