Example sentences of "[prep] one stage [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage we had six separate pub owners . |
| 2 | We thought at one stage we were going to see you motorbiking . |
| 3 | At one stage we were probably bigger in the Republic than we were north of the border . |
| 4 | But er tt erm tt again , er I had a spot of luck , I suppose , erm at one stage we had a very ex-Indian service bloke who ha as quartermaster , had thrown a typewriter through the window , he was known to do daft things like that . |
| 5 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 6 | At one stage we ran short of supplies and Phil , no doubt feeling responsible for our predicament , volunteered to take the rubber duck into Clovelly . |
| 7 | ‘ At one stage we thought Freddie was going to get John thrown out but they both calmed down after a few minutes , ’ added the source . |
| 8 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 9 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 10 | The Orkney variety is extinct and the Shetland is critically low in numbers : at one stage they were down to 35 purebred cows and two bulls . |
| 11 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 12 | Some candidates leave the examination room complaining that at one stage they remembered a case , but later forgot to cite it . |
| 13 | Roy also revealed that at one stage they went to local paramilitaries to ask them to leave one young offender alone . |
| 14 | At one stage they were seen in hot pursuit of a fully loaded M&B beer lorry ! ! |
| 15 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
| 16 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 17 | During the long period of her recovery , Dawn understandably had bouts of severe depression , so at one stage she was referred to a clinical psychologist for counselling . |
| 18 | At one stage she had ended up in prison , then she had contracted HIV from a violent husband who was a heroin addict . |
| 19 | He saw the boat heading back towards him , and at one stage she came to within fifteen yards of him . |
| 20 | At one stage she was issued with forged certificates of deposit for |
| 21 | At one stage she says she suggested that he go and she stay , for the sake of those who believed in them . |
| 22 | At one stage she had suggested that he leave for a vacation and she stayed being , heading a Regency Council . |
| 23 | At one stage she was having forty fits a day . |
| 24 | At one stage he was expected to make the breakthrough to mainstream popularity . |
| 25 | At one stage he even considered visiting the library of British Aerospace to gain ( legitimately ) information on British and American advances . |
| 26 | At one stage he threatened to remove solicitor John Moir from the room , too . |
| 27 | At one stage he was an angry young man with what seemed like a chip on his shoulder , aggravating everyone from referees to opponents . |
| 28 | Indeed at one stage he banged his head against the studio wall in frustration . |
| 29 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 30 | At one stage he turned to the Home Secretary , sitting beside hint , and said : ‘ It was that day , was it not ? ’ |