Example sentences of "have [verb] at [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 NIGEL GOULD has looked at one centre — currently under financial threat — which helps protect young delinquents from themselves .
2 The monthly inflation rate has remained at four point one per cent , but it is below the German annual inflation rate for the first time since nineteen sixty-seven .
3 She 'd thought at one time that it might be serious , be love or something weird like that , she 'd even thought they could get married .
4 If you wanted to kill someone , and you 'd struck at one kidney , you 'd certainly strike at the other .
5 It must have looked at one time as though I 'd follow the family tradition and end up permanently on a farm .
6 For this reason , developmental psychologists frequently introduce descriptions of mental models , cognitive representations or conceptual understanding to provide a link between the kinds of learning which may have occurred at one point in time and the relatively sophisticated behaviours which are subsequently observed .
7 So we 've looked , we 've looked at one lot of brackets times another lot , which is the most difficult thing to do really , and you can do that , no problem .
8 we done all that erm Wa , Walkman all that sort of thing we 've done at one time or other .
9 He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time .
10 They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame .
11 Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity .
12 Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another .
13 Mr B. P. reported that he had already lost 3 stone some time before but had stuck at 15 stone and was pleased when he started to lose again .
14 They had stood at one set all , but Hammond held two service breaks in the third .
15 Also unaccompanied , like Nolan , though Harry had mentioned at one time that Lewis was married : his reclusive wife preferred to stay at home to avoid the fuss and fracas of Lewis drunk .
16 The snow had drifted at one end , at the beck of the wind , so that it reached almost to the eaves of the roof .
17 The most I have played at one time is probably seven hours and it becomes agonising , it tightens your arm up terribly . ’
18 Reading the old files , it is interesting to note how many well-known Institute figures have served at one time or another on the TAC .
19 shop stewards , officials , MPs and the community have worked at hundred mile an hour going to wherever necessary in order to save ship building on Tyneside and Swan Hunters .
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