Example sentences of "[prep] one time he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a director of public companies , the proprietor and editor of a journal , gas inspector and expert witness , and at one time he owned a gold mine ; he did his work in a laboratory of his own … |
| 2 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 3 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 4 | At one time he had been the leader of the local rescue brigade and was familiar with the use of breathing apparatus . |
| 5 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 6 | At one time he engaged in privateering and Burghley recommended marriage to any rich widow . |
| 7 | At one time he lived in Devon I think and he also has association with Yorkshire , so that is could be quite probably in the countryside but it does n't have to be a forest , does n't have to be a fox out there but he does actually say I imagine this midnight moment 's forest . |
| 8 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |
| 9 | At one time he left off animal food , as he said , that his ‘ teeming brain ’ might not be in a greater mist than was natural to it . |
| 10 | At one time he tried to assemble his thoughts in some way ; would it be better to go back to a law-office stool , with prospects of promotion , such as he had thankfully left to go to Glasgow , to Oxford , then to London ? |
| 11 | At one time he intended to become a Catholic and even at one stage a priest . |