Example sentences of "he [verb] at one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 2 | I heard him say at one gathering that there were certain things he thought ought to be done , and he was going to do them , whether people followed him or not . |
| 3 | The next day he starts at one car coming around a bend a little fast . |
| 4 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 5 | erm yo I mean he says at one point , as a positive statement , he thinks , that he bend , he 's bending his nature out of its natural course |
| 6 | With a somewhat carefree use of statistics he claimed at one National Council meeting in 1897 that the delegates represented 70,000,000 Nonconformists , on the assumption that they represented all non-Anglican and non-Roman Catholic Christians in the English-speaking world . |
| 7 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 8 | He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) . |
| 9 | He scratched at one rugby-shirt shrouded armpit , then nodded . |
| 10 | Indeed , as he shut the car door , he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff . |
| 11 | The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers . |
| 12 | he started at one |
| 13 | he started at one |
| 14 | he started at one |
| 15 | he started at one |
| 16 | He grabbed at one leg of the dressing-trolley to steady himself , forgetting his own weight and that the trolley was on wheels . |
| 17 | Also , he saw at one end , pads and claws . |
| 18 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 19 | With characteristic skill , he managed at one and the same time to tap the vein of emotional , utopian socialism which played such a large part in the Labour movement , and yet to make it clear that the Labour Party would take office in a severely pragmatic spirit . |
| 20 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 21 | Eccleshall himself implicitly acknowledges this problem , for he notes at one point that Thatcherism 's characteristics — ‘ its mixture of abrasively theoretical market economics , uncompromising anti-egalitarianism and fervent patriotism ’ — are hardly ‘ the ingredients of what Oakeshottians judge to be authentic Conservatism ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I had 24 shock treatments when I was 17 , ’ he notes at one point . |
| 23 | A Pharisee by training and once a vehement conservative , he had at one stage harassed the infant church but was dramatically converted by confrontation with a vision of the risen Lord . |
| 24 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
| 25 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
| 26 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 27 | There was Miss Sharon Hughes with whom the deceased had been very friendly and who , it is said , he had at one time wanted to marry . |
| 28 | He had at one time suspected his mother of doing precisely this . |
| 29 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |
| 30 | He had at one stage been described as the worst farmer in Britain and RSPCA investigators found emaciated animals when they went there . |