Example sentences of "and [verb] at one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like a chain , with Leconte and Forget at one end . |
| 2 | Sir William Pickering was Knight Marshal to Henry VIII , and when he died in 1542 he left Oswaldkirk to his 24-year-old son , an extremely handsome and distinguished courtier and diplomat , brave and wise as well , and considered at one time as a suitor for Queen Elizabeth . |
| 3 | At meal times the children would make a line and wait at one end of the room , where a table had been placed , there they would be given a helping of that day 's menu . |
| 4 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 5 | The wrapper was usually a very large coloured handkerchief that was wound mice round the neck and tied at one side ‘ with two ends left a-flapping ’ . |
| 6 | Can copy be accessed from several files and displayed at one time ? |
| 7 | A full skirt of crimson and black swelled over her hips and was lifted and pinned at one side to reveal a cascade of lacy petticoats . |
| 8 | Bassetja led from half a mile out and looked at one stage like winning the race as the favourite Velma appeared to have it all to do . |
| 9 | Salomon , who had left Germany when he was nine , showed few signs of anything like this happening to him — although he was reported as ‘ somewhat unsociable ’ and disappeared at one stage for three days , returning well and happy . |
| 10 | He is prone to speak and write at one moment as though motives were transparently obvious , and at the next as though they were inscrutable mysteries far beyond the range of his competence . |
| 11 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 12 | She was jumpy and had at one point been startled by her own shadow . |
| 13 | She was a nurse , and had at one time been a nun . |
| 14 | Still , she liked one or two of the collective , Xanthe had put some money in ( actually five hundred pounds , a fair whack ) when Miranda had asked her to , so she felt bound to give the paper some support in kind , and the office was fun — she liked pitching in with headings , sidebars , suggested stories , and pasting up till the small hours , with the help of ciggies and carafe wine ; the sex gossip was the best in town , which made up for the coffee ( though they could afford dope , they could n't rise to real coffee , and had at one time even resorted to the bitter brown syrup Camp , with the turbaned lascar on the label ) . |
| 15 | In 1988 Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid , war hero of campaigns in the south and described at one time as having fought a ‘ perfect tank battle ’ in the desert near the Howeizah marshes , was said to be under house arrest . |