Example sentences of "[to-vb] [num] [noun sg] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
| 2 | The experiment consisted of presenting an unseen passage of text to a person and asking her to guess one letter at a time . |
| 3 | ‘ Because of all that 's happened , ’ she says , such a move would have to come one step at a time . |
| 4 | It is ridiculous to sell one beast at a time to one person . |
| 5 | Already agreement has been reached to open one terminal at a JET station in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | I wanted to use different coloured pens to mark out various patterns on the same sheet as I could only afford to buy one sheet at the time . |
| 7 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 8 | The speaker may need to be physically closer , to use the reassuring sense of touch , to remember that the whole face and expression help to convey meaning , to express one thought at a time unhurriedly , at the pace suitable to the old person . |
| 9 | In practice , binary oppositions are very liable to favour one term at the expense of the other , and there can be no doubt that Bakhtin preferred the dialogic to the monologic ( a bias that is evident in everyday English , where to engage in dialogue is good , and to utter a monologue is rather bad ) . |
| 10 | When examining class differences in mortality and morbidity it is usual to group together social classes I and II to form one category at the top of the class hierarchy and social classes IV and V to form the group at the lower end of the class distribution . |
| 11 | You , you could say , I 'm going to do all four walls together or I 'm going to do one wall at a time . |
| 12 | If we begin thinking about the details of the cube , we can try to restore one piece at a time . |
| 13 | When there is mismatch between different devices , seek to master one device at a time , e.g. drill word order first , and then inflections of the verb . |
| 14 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 15 | These combine with forward and reverse in fast or slow motion , freeze and step frame ( the ability to move one frame at a time ) and two audio tracks . |
| 16 | Franchising is supposed to happen one route at a time , over as many as 12 years . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know where he will go after his race at Christmas — I just want to take one race at a time — but the main target is the Champion Hurdle again . ’ |
| 18 | When his younger son comes of an age when he wants to get married , any girl he brings home is going to take one look at the life his mother has to put up with and she 'll be off . ’ |
| 19 | In the first of two reports , we look at the difficulties facing people with head injuries , as they learn to take one day at a time . |
| 20 | In the second of our reports on head injury we examine how it 's often the whole family who have to learn to take one day at a time . |
| 21 | ‘ It is our policy to take one game at a time and look no further than that . ’ |
| 22 | From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time . |