Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , many females who are alienated or marginalised at one stage of their lives are included at another , and vice versa . |
| 2 | From the top , you will have a glorious view , and you can go for a walk , or relax at one of the mountain top restaurants , sitting on the terrace and drinking in the views . |
| 3 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 4 | ‘ The recognizable direction of social development ’ , she concluded , ‘ has made it clear to me that there is no social class in Poland that has at one and the same time both an interest in , and an ability to achieve , the restoration of Poland ’ . |
| 5 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 6 | Consider the long tendon that attaches at one end to the muscle flexor digitorum profundus and at its other end to digit 3 . |
| 7 | Although the Victoria was not an especially large establishment , it backed onto an old warehouse that had at one time been split down the middle and then divided up into a series of small rooms that all opened onto a single long corridor . |
| 8 | It was like a chain , with Leconte and Forget at one end . |
| 9 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 10 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 11 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 12 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 13 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 14 | This was appealing to everyone 's better instincts and most of the giants looked alert and nodded at one another , because , of course , the Gruagach were known the length and breadth of Ireland for their culture and learning . |
| 15 | It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental , longer-term challenges facing society : the ageing of the population . |
| 16 | ‘ Julia , I hope that you will let me take you down into Florence for dinner tonight ; if we went early , we could stroll a little first and look at one or two of the best exteriors . ’ |
| 17 | If you were ever in doubt about the ‘ benefits ’ of the long-proposed Cardiff Bay barrage , you only need to go to Euston Station and look at one of the walls there . |
| 18 | False clarity is only another name for myth ; and myth has always been obscure and enlightening at one and the same time : always using the devices of familiarity and straightforward dismissal to avoid the labour of conceptualization . |
| 19 | They hacked and sliced at one another till there was no meaning left , only a confusion of bloodthirsty syllables spelling out absurdity . |
| 20 | The wrapper was usually a very large coloured handkerchief that was wound mice round the neck and tied at one side ‘ with two ends left a-flapping ’ . |
| 21 | Can copy be accessed from several files and displayed at one time ? |
| 22 | They loitered at the front of the house , at the garden corner , sharp angle of white stone , and scowled at one another . |
| 23 | A full skirt of crimson and black swelled over her hips and was lifted and pinned at one side to reveal a cascade of lacy petticoats . |
| 24 | Once there , we lifted ourselves and looked at one another , both of us laughing , trudging grass-stained to the top again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Superficially it might have appeared as though two brawny giants , immobilised but for the sway of their torsos , were about to jab and slash at one another , piercing and flaying till the vampire bat device decided that sufficient flesh had been sliced , that sufficient blood had coagulated in slim cinnabar threads . |
| 27 | I wound my slow way through the maze of unpruned growth and felt at one with things there and inexpressibly happy . |
| 28 | ‘ Fantastic just is n't good enough , ’ she replied quietly , and felt at one with him , and the world . |
| 29 | We then continued our journey , pushing on until we reached the city walls and lodged at one of the fine taverns on the Southwark side of the river . |
| 30 | I hear the West Indian boys swearing and yelling at one another in quick , hoarse voices . |