Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 2 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 3 | INITIAL shock gave ground to more considered calm in the market after Mr Lamont 's forecast of a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement had at one stage wiped 14 points off the FT-SE 100-Share Index . |
| 4 | Historically , the town looked at one time as if would become the main centre of Thames Valley affairs . |
| 5 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 6 | There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs . |
| 7 | In nineteen seventy nine the grant for trade union education stood at one point six million . |
| 8 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |
| 9 | The T'ang and his father sat at one end of the long , darkwood table , facing each other , while Ben sat alone at the other end . |
| 10 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 11 | Her skin had at one stage , unusual in a redhead , been almost chocolate-brown and silk-smooth , but she was a northern redhead , and had passed beyond the russet and the Negro , back to a strange peeled patchwork , toast-cinder brown , radish-crimson , freckled bone and the translucent grey of flaking skin still shifting . |
| 12 | She 'll rigid cos her pay stopped at one stage and it was wrong because she had n't been warned |
| 13 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 14 | A warder stood at one end of the infirmary , standing by a thick metal door . |
| 15 | A disused stone toll house stood at one side of the river , a ruined mill on the other . |