Example sentences of "i [vb base] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when someone walks up with the intention of breaking in a light comes on , I mean at one time , it 's not the same now , but at one time when these lights with the detectors first came out , nobody actually knew whether they were switched on or not . |
| 2 | Not quite cos I mean at one time , when he was Christopher 's age god he was never free from cold was he ? |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | I mean at one time it was the Times Literary Supplement or something with an Oxford box around it . |
| 5 | I mean at that time say perhaps go in the pub the or the or the , I mean there used to be so many pubs round the er , the dock area then , I mean you take the , and erm then there used to be the erm there was all them pubs round the dock then , noth one or two more but I ca n't re oh the was another one . |
| 6 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
| 7 | Erm I know at one time they were the motors were going to fast , the ball was . |
| 8 | Well I remember at that time the steam roller that was just doing the road outside Tormore House and many 's the day I was trying to get on it with a very good friend of ours that 's now dead . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So I believe at one time |
| 11 | ‘ I believe at that time my wife Christina privately thought I was mad . |
| 12 | So I go at any time late at night . |
| 13 | I think at that time you had to pay for it , but you could go and have ten minutes , sommat like that , and a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Th we th , I think at that time it was just the done thing , you hand out tranquillizers , erm but I found it a , a really bad experience |
| 15 | I think at that time there were seven regional offices |
| 16 | And in fact the coffee rooms not only were not profitable but I think at one time were even subsidized by the directors ' own pocket which just how balmy some people can be . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was fourteen plus I think at one time . |
| 19 | I would n't mind doing another one next year , but my choice , whatever I fancy at that time |