Example sentences of "[prep] one time [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one time we kept pigs and used to feed them up with the waste food and sell them in the market . |
| 2 | At one time we said it was you know rewarded on the edge of technology when they like most things you know . |
| 3 | At one time we contemplated incorporating the barn , but Russell needed a studio and it was ideal . |
| 4 | At one time they hoped for a family . |
| 5 | and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . |
| 6 | At one time they hit 356p . |
| 7 | They used to buy from Ghana a lot and er at one time they stopped it and this very nearly brought down Ghana 's economy right down . |
| 8 | He postulated that at one time there had been an area of land in what is now the Atlantic Ocean allowing plants to move from Spain to Ireland . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 12 | At one time he had been the leader of the local rescue brigade and was familiar with the use of breathing apparatus . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At one time he engaged in privateering and Burghley recommended marriage to any rich widow . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | At one time he intended to become a Catholic and even at one stage a priest . |
| 20 | The new remedy rapidly encroached upon the spheres of trespass and replevin so that at one time it looked as if any ‘ asportation ’ or moving of the property might be regarded not only as a trespass to it but also conversion of it , but this very wide doctrine was restricted to a principle that the dealing with the goods must amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 21 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |
| 22 | At one time it seemed that the best approach to the problem would be to reduce the level of lead in petrol , but not to eliminate it altogether . |
| 23 | At one time it did displace crime . |
| 24 | ‘ At one time I thought my vocation was to be a surgeon or doctor . |
| 25 | many times , at one time I thought it would never happen again , I thought this was it forever , but life is n't like that , things happen and it does change . |
| 26 | At one time I thought Tatyana may have done it , but now I have evidence it was someone else . ’ |
| 27 | At one time I thought we were going to overwhelm the Europeans . |
| 28 | At one time I thought that you and he … |
| 29 | ‘ At one time I thought Blackburn would get 96 points but the situation has changed . |
| 30 | I thought at one time I saw signs of a recovery ; but the event makes me fear that I was not heard … |