Example sentences of "thing [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 ( c ) If the victim wants the thing during the time when the accused has dishonestly borrowed it , he can not use it , whether or not the accused intends permanently to deprive .
2 Can I just ask one thing , a another thing about the time you were living in , erm did you as a woman know anything about contraception ?
3 Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times .
4 well I mean I 'm only trying to get you to pick to pick it up one wee thing from every time I said , do have a chat with you , that 's what we always say , I 'm not expecting you to pick up anything else I 've said to you tonight cos I 'm only talking to you in general terms , but if you pick up one wee thing , right , story close
5 okay , I ju as I say i do n't want to promise you something that that I know I 'm not going to be able to achieve in these two days because that 's not yep certainly if you want to talk about that you know as a separate thing outside the time then then we 'll be able to help you do that , okay ?
6 In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them .
7 It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ .
8 Thatcher 's great advantage is this laser sight which fixes in a very narrow , straight beam on one thing at a time . ’
9 The common sense , suburban philosophy of the accountant 's daughter from Surrey Hills — ‘ one thing at a time , ’ forever ringing in her ear — over-rode all the tempting words Stock , Aitken and Waterman and the money men of pop bombarded her with .
10 MANY mothers agreed with Helen Bullock that men can only focus on one thing at a time .
11 ‘ One thing at a time , ’ he used to say pompously , as though there were some virtue in it .
12 deals with one thing at a time
13 One thing at a time .
14 You see the Vox is trying to be all things , but in fact it 's only really good for one thing at a time . ’
15 You dealt with one thing at a time , gave it your whole attention , decided it , then put it aside .
16 ‘ One thing at a time , Jimmy .
17 She says ‘ no ’ more often , rather than suffering or withdrawing , and she is able to remind people of her difficulty in concentrating on more than one thing at a time .
18 At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time .
19 can we just come back to the pupil comment business , one thing at a time for a moment
20 No word of the Press Lord 's daughter or remarriage — one thing at a time .
21 This was , from Frederica , pointedly rude , but Caroline took it complacently , said , " One thing at a time .
22 and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time .
23 Then try to think of one thing at a time as you write .
24 I believe harmonic poverty is often caused by a student 's perfectly natural inability to think of more than one thing at a time .
25 To avoid confusion we need some sort of structure which allows us to focus on one thing at a time .
26 In structure drills as well as in pronunciation drills there is one important principle : drill one thing at a time .
27 On the whole , he disliked comparisons , because they made you think about more than one thing at a time .
28 ‘ One thing at a time , if you please , ’ said the Inspector .
29 Change only one thing at a time and notice if it stops crashing or not .
30 ‘ But the thrust of our approach is to start at home , focusing on one thing at a time rather than confusing ourselves by trying to do everything at once — which is a major reason why 85 per cent of organisations trying to do something in this area fail to get it right .
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