Example sentences of "[vb base] at one [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Erm I know at one time they were the motors were going to fast , the ball was .
2 I understand at one time it was possible to cross the river by means of stepping stones but these are no longer in position and the landowner finds that walkers wander along the river bank looking for the path and for a way to cross the river .
3 Her health began to suffer , which was understandable , and I think at one time she deteriorated so badly that the doctors rather washed their hands of her .
4 structures , their possibilities I mean at one stage they would have been at a certain level had n't got a landlord their income but that 's within one particular moral economy , now the idea here is to break that down , you know , just get rid of the circle altogether .
5 I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are .
6 I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it .
7 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 ?
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