Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By wrecking a motion at the time , rightly or wrongly placed and once again I see this afternoon we 've got a similar motion on the table . |
| 2 | This solution works particularly well in houses which have evolved over several centuries , where it is possible to repair a wing at a time , selling the houses as they near completion and recycling the investment . |
| 3 | Opening a brewery at a time when Britain 's drinkers are supping less beer than they used to might not seem like a good idea . |
| 4 | He bethought him of his little key and held it up bravely before him , and it put out a little sparkling light that illumined a step at a time , silvery-pale . |
| 5 | I think Japan was taken by surprise — they did n't expect a tour at the time — but he just decided to do it . |
| 6 | But even this pales slightly in the face of Walton conducting , in the same series , the first-ever recorded version of Belshazzar 's Feast , featuring Dennis Noble as the incisive soloist , a wartime set that caused a sensation at the time . |
| 7 | He had three pieces of paper in front of him and was writing a line at a time on each — a different line on different aspects of his recent battle with lung cancer , which , however , he stated was now completely cured . |
| 8 | Read a paragraph at a time with emphasis to make the meaning clear . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're building a chain at a time when you can do good deals on the rent , ’ said Mr Chapman . |
| 10 | The head , which was being given a facelift at the time of December 's fire , has been graced with a new mop of blue hair . |
| 11 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 12 | Mrs Weaver , who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall , was pronounced dead at the scene . |
| 13 | On I8 April 1983 the American Embassy in Beirut was car-bombed and collapsed like a pack of cards , sixty-three employees , including a team of senior CIA agents holding a meeting at the time were killed . |
| 14 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 15 | Det Con Steve Roberts added : ‘ It is unusual to say the least , the fact that one of these women was holding a baby at the time . ’ |
| 16 | Richards insisted he was not pressurizing the umpire but doing a celebratory dance , which seemed odd since as the umpire had not raised a finger at the time he had nothing to celebrate . |
| 17 | They entered the business and developed a reputation at a time of unprecedented and unique demand , offering an independent British alternative to Russell Reynolds , with a younger and more up-market , polished and highly qualified team than GKR seemed to have . |
| 18 | I was expecting a baby at the time . |
| 19 | Have to do a bit at a time . |
| 20 | H. P. We used to keep an eye on pubs where the sergeant and the constable used to do a month at a time , visiting the cinemas , theatres , and public houses , licensed places , and do some pubs , night after night — just checking things , and at five past ten , you 'd be right in checking they were keeping to closing time . |
| 21 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |
| 22 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 23 | ‘ He was recommended to us and I think he did n't have a club at the time . |
| 24 | ‘ He was recommended to us and I think he did n't have a club at the time . |
| 25 | Charlie , who did n't have a girlfriend at the time , hit back : ‘ I am an actor and doing scenes like that is what I am paid to do . |
| 26 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 27 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |
| 28 | They considered themselves above parish apprentices , yet of the fellow members of the cutter club with whom he rowed on the Thames , Place recalled that the stroke was hanged for a murder he did not commit , not being able to provide an alibi as he was committing a burglary at the time , while the cox was transported for a robbery . |
| 29 | I , yeah , I drove up , up there and back , like , my leg do n't ache , they ached a bit at a time , but that , you know that bone you get , each side of your keep your thumb there , you 've got that bone , underneath there 's a bone there , you might , or the bottom bone that you 'll sit on , you know when you sit still you get that bone . |
| 30 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |