Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] at [adj] stage " in BNC.

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1 Dozens turned out to ride the Severn Bore which at some stages was five feet high .
2 Comfortable Government majorities on two key motions followed a searing fightback by the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , during raucous exchanges which saw him at one stage on the ropes in the face of a furious tirade by , alternately , the Labour leader , John Smith , and the shadow chancellor , Gordon Brown .
3 Did you at any stage draw your revolver ?
4 Did you at any stage take the revolver out of the holster ?
5 Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction .
6 They obtained some preserved embryo amphisbaenians — a difficult thing to do as specimens are scarce — and sectioned them at various stages of development .
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