Example sentences of "[vb past] at one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 2 | Erm we used at one time as you remember to have a full time education officer and er for a number of reasons er that er is no longer the case . |
| 3 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 4 | At last Fitzosbert stopped at one cell door and clicked his fingers . |
| 5 | The blond girl looked abnormal only in that she was out of place : her wide blue eyes , her long hair and long bare legs , her petulant expression , all these Bernice noticed at one glance , and dismissed . |
| 6 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 7 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 8 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 11 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 12 | It was circling slowly and very low down , almost touching , it seemed at one point , the summit of Big Allen . |
| 13 | So nearly , it seemed at one point . |
| 14 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |
| 15 | I 'm not trying to cast any blame here but handed over allocations on Innsbruck to at one time yeah and left us to carry the ball cos she sort of withdrew at one time |
| 16 | He scratched at one rugby-shirt shrouded armpit , then nodded . |
| 17 | The mouth was harsh , downturned at one corner , though it lifted when he smiled . |
| 18 | Indeed , as he shut the car door , he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff . |
| 19 | Douglas Hurd remarked at one summit that ‘ some of the other member states have less faith in their own institutions than we do ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 21 | As Lord Quinton remarked at one point : |
| 22 | It takes the form of two parallel fluorescent tubes bridged at one end . |
| 23 | He grabbed at one leg of the dressing-trolley to steady himself , forgetting his own weight and that the trolley was on wheels . |
| 24 | I worked at one time for a man who was incredibly able at doing his job , apparently effortlessly . |
| 25 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 26 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 27 | Also , he saw at one end , pads and claws . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She felt at one level that this was no worse than she deserved . |
| 30 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |