Example sentences of "[prep] one time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 2 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 3 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 4 | " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said . |
| 5 | At one time we contemplated incorporating the barn , but Russell needed a studio and it was ideal . |
| 6 | At one time we used to start the training courses on on both wallets and folders on a Tuesday . |
| 7 | At one time we said it was you know rewarded on the edge of technology when they like most things you know . |
| 8 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 9 | At one time they hit 356p . |
| 10 | At one time they could turn to the Government 's agricultural advisory service , but now this charges for its help and is too expensive to consult in many cases . |
| 11 | At one time they hoped for a family . |
| 12 | At one time they were very much cultivated in Provence and are still popular there . |
| 13 | They used to buy from Ghana a lot and er at one time they stopped it and this very nearly brought down Ghana 's economy right down . |
| 14 | And er at one time they were on the evening papers , opposite . |
| 15 | Erm I know at one time they were the motors were going to fast , the ball was . |
| 16 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |
| 17 | Oh they , they used to have several going through the hangers at one time they erm they probably had about six Harvards , and about nine Bostons which were , they were bigger than |
| 18 | At one time they 'd say , Oh just bid the whole parish . |
| 19 | No , I do n't suppose you do now , but , but I have would off worked for local authorities , because at one time they were very poorly paid . |
| 20 | and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . |
| 21 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
| 22 | At one time he left off animal food , as he said , that his ‘ teeming brain ’ might not be in a greater mist than was natural to it . |
| 23 | At one time he also had a nanny , who came from the German-speaking part of Switzerland . |
| 24 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 25 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 26 | At one time he had been the leader of the local rescue brigade and was familiar with the use of breathing apparatus . |
| 27 | At one time he was a sheep-farmer himself and , upon his deification , placed his flock in the heavens so as to keep a close eye on them . |
| 28 | At one time he tried to assemble his thoughts in some way ; would it be better to go back to a law-office stool , with prospects of promotion , such as he had thankfully left to go to Glasgow , to Oxford , then to London ? |
| 29 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 30 | At one time he was always making noises like a chicken . |