Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [adj] stage " in BNC.
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1 | structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether . |
2 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
3 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
4 | ‘ The album itself is everything I want at this stage … but y'know you just ca n't predict how people will take it . ’ |
5 | He dealt very little with guitar techniques and almost entirely with musicality and musical ideas , which is what I needed at that stage . |
6 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
7 | The earth never quite moved for me in the Dante Sonata as I thought at one stage it might . |
8 | Harry and I thought at one stage that if we could find a proper home |
9 | Can I , can I interrupt at that stage |
10 | I think at that stage we can we can proceed . |
11 | Erm I think at that stage , Robin was the the chairman of the tenants association , |
12 | So this was mentioned in fact , I think at one stage . |
13 | Oh hold on , you 've got , you 've got a , you could have a shot at those , but I think at this stage of the game , it 'll be best if you did have a shot at the yellow . |
14 | I think at this stage we could define for Sandra though , so that we ensure that this does happen and it happens throughout , as and when things run out . |
15 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
16 | Could I say at this stage , i is anybody having difficulty hearing at the back ? |
17 | The aim of the exercise , then , is to hypothesise a set of syntactic stages through which children pass in their progress towards the adult language , and to classify the structures and categories which operate at each stage , thus providing a syntactic profile chart of development . |
18 | And as you say at that stage it really was just a matter of erm every man for himself really . |
19 | Was there anything that you remember at that stage that was unusual , that made you suspect something was going to happen ? ’ |
20 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
21 | So if you feel at some stage that er this is n't for me then one of the things that we regularly hear is I wish I 'd done this course ten years ago . |
22 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
23 | I hope you find these comments helpful , and if you do at some stage produce such a jacket , please let me know . |
24 | We agreed at that stage that while we would no longer take any active part in the management of the venture , we would continue to provide financial support via our guarantees . |
25 | We realized at this stage that it would be difficult for this strand of non-print publishing to develop from existing production expertise , however advanced the latter 's use of electronics to produce print more cheaply and more flexibly . |
26 | Erm as I digest Mr 's comments and the various implications erm of the things that he said , it 's more and more confirming for me that perhaps we may well be right in the step by step measured approach because quite clearly erm I suspect that if we run at this stage a preferred location , erm I suspect that the the opposition to that and there would be opposition to it , may well have may well prejudice the principle er of the new settlement . |
27 | ‘ Strategy demands that we be wary about the information we release at this stage . ’ |
28 | What we term instrumental denunciation is actually a form of reductivism ( which we discuss at this stage for convenience ) . |
29 | We thought at one stage we were going to see you motorbiking . |
30 | With the four prospective purchasers which we have at this stage it will be necessary to go through an elimination process , selecting one to proceed with and perhaps one to keep on hold . |