Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [pron] at " in BNC.

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1 Numbers : Numbers should usually be spelt out one at nine and at the beginning of a sentence .
2 Matters were sufficiently serious for us to be called forward one at a time .
3 They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn .
4 After a few weeks , they were sent away one at a time to Hendon Works for repainting and returned renumbered 345–347 .
5 Instead of the medical materialism of Hammer horror , we get a surprisingly restrained treatment of the play 's fuliginous cruelties : even when the Duchess is invaded by a chorus of madmen , they are ushered in one at a time by a beady-eyed supervisor wielding a corrective cane .
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