Example sentences of "[num] time [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
2 | As regards offers , at any one time we would have over 1000 offers available in-store ; these change on a weekly basis and it would be almost impossible to give advance notice to all staff ; we do of course highlight them in-store to customers and many are advertised in the national press or on TV so that customers [ and potential customers ] may be attracted to shop in JS branches . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | No , but er , I do n't know people , it 's , it 's where people get their ideas from I think for a start , I know one time we used to sell oh a lot of erm spotlights and spotlamps , but only to people who were running discos , er now erm there are people who erm , well they , they want a , a couple in the lounge or something like that or , and er , and then of course they , there 's others who erm have them outside and light up their trees , at night . |
5 | At one time we used to start the training courses on on both wallets and folders on a Tuesday . |
6 | As I write , I can almost hear the protests of those with families to feed — ‘ It 's the one time we can all sit down together ’ or ‘ I do n't have time to cook several different meals each evening ’ . |
7 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
8 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |
9 | At one time they 'd say , Oh just bid the whole parish . |
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 it would have embarrassed her . |
12 | Yet at one time it used to look quite strange to see a girl teacher but |
13 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
14 | At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily . |
15 | At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk . |
16 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
17 | A third friend said , " One time I used to go around with a load of boys who wanted to break people 's windows , so I just left . " |
18 | Now at one time I used to say here you are here are the two products when you go on the training course it 'll be decided at the end of the training course which product you 'll go on . |
19 | At one time I used to quite often go to the Castle . |
20 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
21 | I Have n't needed try , Brenda , I ca n't I mean at one time I 'd have devoured that . |
22 | It 's perhaps the one time you 'll bless starting with a completely clean slate ; at least there are no existing possessions that might perhaps prove difficult to accommodate . |
23 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
24 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
25 | I know things have altered recently , but certainly at one time you could n't speak to God yourself and confess your sins direct to Him . |
26 | at one time you could of done , but now , you 've got to take the guards off |
27 | I mean even us we we 're going in and out intensive care having a fag , having a cup of coffee , walking in , we 're full of germs I mean at one time you used to have to have gloves you know , did n't you ? |
28 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
29 | Well you could never , you could never rely on shipment , cos one time you 'd get a lot of shipment and the next time you might be six weeks and get no shipment , so who 's gon na pay them their money ? |
30 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |