Example sentences of "[vb past] at [adj] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 2 | He will start on the substitutes ' bench and Souness said : ‘ The chances are good people will see Barnes involved at some stage . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 5 | However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance . |
| 6 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 7 | He dealt very little with guitar techniques and almost entirely with musicality and musical ideas , which is what I needed at that stage . |
| 8 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 9 | Salomon , who had left Germany when he was nine , showed few signs of anything like this happening to him — although he was reported as ‘ somewhat unsociable ’ and disappeared at one stage for three days , returning well and happy . |
| 10 | It was our duty , he felt at that stage , to desist from overpopulating the planet . |
| 11 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 12 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 13 | But it looked at one stage as if they might lose their first choice and have to stay in Reigate for another summer when negotiations for the purchase coincided with their long-planned holiday of a lifetime — watching last month 's world cup cricket in Australia . |
| 14 | Bassetja led from half a mile out and looked at one stage like winning the race as the favourite Velma appeared to have it all to do . |
| 15 | Their East Midlands opponents , one of the lesser lights of the competition , looked at one stage like being well mauled , but were allowed , like so many teams before them , to stage a late fightback . |
| 16 | We thought at one stage we were going to see you motorbiking . |
| 17 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
| 18 | Harry and I thought at one stage that if we could find a proper home |
| 19 | But it was Emlyn Williams he conquered at that stage and Emlyn Williams mattered . |
| 20 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
| 21 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
| 22 | It appeared at one stage that the delivery of List information to barristers would be interrupted . |
| 23 | The strange , abstract and logically fantastic world of the mathematicians remained somewhat isolated both from the general and the scientific public , perhaps more so than before , since its main contact with both , physics ( through physical technology ) , appeared at this stage to have less use for its most advanced and adventurous abstractions than in the great days of the construction of a celestial mechanics . |
| 24 | How far Warnie emulated at this stage of life his father 's fondness for a little drop of whiskey , and at what point he began his calamintous descent into alcoholism is not easy to determine . |
| 25 | We agreed at that stage that while we would no longer take any active part in the management of the venture , we would continue to provide financial support via our guarantees . |
| 26 | On balance they are better off being fully camouflaged at this stage , because although the blue tail may save the life of many a young lizard it also has the disadvantage of being so conspicuous that it can , to some extent , attract unwanted attention in the first place . |
| 27 | But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the |
| 28 | A further 35% of the students either failed at the final examination , failed at some stage of the course or withdrew for some reason . |
| 29 | Excuse me , do wo n't the schoolchildren asked at one stage |
| 30 | We realized at this stage that it would be difficult for this strand of non-print publishing to develop from existing production expertise , however advanced the latter 's use of electronics to produce print more cheaply and more flexibly . |