Example sentences of "[prep] [num] time [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 2 | At one time we would have to hire a man in for a month , eating with us but sleeping in the barn . |
| 3 | At one time we used to start the training courses on on both wallets and folders on a Tuesday . |
| 4 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 5 | At one time they could turn to the Government 's agricultural advisory service , but now this charges for its help and is too expensive to consult in many cases . |
| 6 | ‘ At one time they 'd have thought it odd if I did n't have a girl in tow . |
| 7 | At one time they 'd say , Oh just bid the whole parish . |
| 8 | But he was taking far too many punches which at one time he would have slipped with ease . |
| 9 | At one time he used to spend winters with Lord Henry in a little house in Algiers , but now he no longer travelled outside England . |
| 10 | At one time it would have embarrassed her . |
| 11 | Yet at one time it used to look quite strange to see a girl teacher but |
| 12 | At one time it must have been a waiting room for clients . |
| 13 | At one time I would have suggested that everyone would shed surplus fat on a ration of 1,500 calories daily . |
| 14 | At one time I would buy a bottle of whiskey and pour it all over me before going home because I knew she would n't try to argue if she thought I was drunk . |
| 15 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
| 16 | At one time I could easily have become a fundamentalist advocate of natural childbirth ( Reaching for certainty NI 210 ) . |
| 17 | I Have n't needed try , Brenda , I ca n't I mean at one time I 'd have devoured that . |
| 18 | Now at one time I used to say here you are here are the two products when you go on the training course it 'll be decided at the end of the training course which product you 'll go on . |
| 19 | At one time I used to quite often go to the Castle . |
| 20 | At one time she might have wanted to sit among the crowd , to escape from the prying eyes , but she would never have had the confidence to say so . |
| 21 | At one time she might have considered Vitor to be a dyed-in-the-wool monster , but she was gradually reassessing her opinion . |
| 22 | At one time she 'd have sworn with hand on heart that Dane had absolutely no effect on her knees whatsoever . |
| 23 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 24 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 25 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 26 | I know things have altered recently , but certainly at one time you could n't speak to God yourself and confess your sins direct to Him . |
| 27 | at one time you could of done , but now , you 've got to take the guards off |
| 28 | I mean even us we we 're going in and out intensive care having a fag , having a cup of coffee , walking in , we 're full of germs I mean at one time you used to have to have gloves you know , did n't you ? |