Example sentences of "[vb past] at one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 2 | I spent that Sunday at Littlehampton ; on the Monday I dined at one of George 's clubs — ’ |
| 3 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 4 | We stopped at one of his regular suppliers and cadged a few sea urchins , then the knife to eat them with . |
| 5 | At last Fitzosbert stopped at one cell door and clicked his fingers . |
| 6 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 7 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 8 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 9 | The blond girl looked abnormal only in that she was out of place : her wide blue eyes , her long hair and long bare legs , her petulant expression , all these Bernice noticed at one glance , and dismissed . |
| 10 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 11 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 12 | The Prince smiled , as if to soften his sartorial orders , then gestured at one of his Dutch aides . |
| 13 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 14 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 15 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 16 | It seemed at one stage that the dealer was dead — even some of the larger , more old-fashioned companies announced plans to introduce a direct sales scheme at the start of 1993 , although this has yet to happen . |
| 17 | It was circling slowly and very low down , almost touching , it seemed at one point , the summit of Big Allen . |
| 18 | So nearly , it seemed at one point . |
| 19 | Visiting Washington on Oct. 1 the Amir of Kuwait Shaikh Jabir Ahmed al-Jabir al Sabah expressed his gratitude to United States President George Bush and to the US people for withstanding " evil tendencies — motivated by false ambitions , mad greed and deep hatred — [ which ] exploded at one inauspicious moment " . |
| 20 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 21 | Gradually , as they stole up to the Belmont stockade , Dulé distinguished different sounds — the fierce explosions of musket fire , the shrieking of the attackers , the yells and shouts and curses and groans of fighting men , their voices thick with fury , the different languages reduced to meaninglessness by the struggles , as men grappled , stabbed , battered , poked at one another 's eyes and even bit one another in the combat at close quarters ; while at a distance the screams of rage and pain merged with the volleys of musket fire and the singing of the arrows . |
| 22 | This was appealing to everyone 's better instincts and most of the giants looked alert and nodded at one another , because , of course , the Gruagach were known the length and breadth of Ireland for their culture and learning . |
| 23 | With a somewhat carefree use of statistics he claimed at one National Council meeting in 1897 that the delegates represented 70,000,000 Nonconformists , on the assumption that they represented all non-Anglican and non-Roman Catholic Christians in the English-speaking world . |
| 24 | When the CEGB 's drilling rigs arrived at one particular farm , their way was firmly blocked and a local woman and her daughter immediately chained themselves to the equipment . |
| 25 | ‘ You , ’ Cranston barked at one , ‘ go for a physician ! |
| 26 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |
| 27 | At the time , Davide found the two women funny ; they shrieked at one another and squealed like animals at the slaughter themselves . |
| 28 | I 'm not trying to cast any blame here but handed over allocations on Innsbruck to at one time yeah and left us to carry the ball cos she sort of withdrew at one time |
| 29 | He scratched at one rugby-shirt shrouded armpit , then nodded . |
| 30 | The formal sitting began at one o'clock the following day . |