Example sentences of "[noun sg] had at one [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ’ .
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