Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time for someone on a star will be different from that for someone at a distance , because of the gravitational field of the star . |
| 2 | She had removed the brushes , but , both at once , instead of one at a time . |
| 3 | Think of one at a time . |
| 4 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 5 | They had photographed her sitting on a kitchen stool in a white passage , with her back against a long stretch of wall , like someone at a dance . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's like something at a theme park , ’ she commented with a yawn . |
| 7 | He advocates marking the stretchers off one at a time instead of squaring cross all four at once . |
| 8 | And just to make things really tough the matches are rovers with each angler sent off one at a time to pick his swim , putting the emphasis on reading the water . |
| 9 | Using space : good — only room for one at a time |
| 10 | Beds must be made , equipment sorted and ordered , and patients dealt with one at a time . |
| 11 | They should be dealt with one at a time using the subsequent text pages . |
| 12 | And closing them piecemeal , thinking they can get away with one at a time . |
| 13 | Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool . |
| 14 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 15 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 16 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 17 | I only work on one at a time because I find it quite niggling if something is n't finished . |
| 18 | Send it to one at a time and be prepared to wait a good while for a reply . |
| 19 | We used to one at a time . |
| 20 | I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time . |
| 21 | She turned them over one at a time , trying to decipher the handwriting . |