Example sentences of "say at one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 2 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 3 | Though Bede says at one point that Oswiu also made tributary the Scots ( of Dál Riata ) ( HE II , 5 ) , there is no direct evidence for this . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | For instance , who amongst us has not said at one time or another : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's from Puno , ’ Ward said at one stage . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know , David , ’ she said at one moment when they had finished their pasta . |
| 9 | John Campbell , aged 52 , a cottar at Giol , said at one time there were nine tenants there who went to America about 32 years since [ 1860 ] , there were at least six in Grastle and Tockmal . |
| 10 | When you had the blues erm near by you said at one time that it was just away from here , was there , was there any , was it , was there any bother after that after the blues then or was it okay ? |
| 11 | ‘ If you want the exact quantities , buy my book , ’ he said at one point , one eye in the direction of the BBC publicity department , before adding , as the other swivelled down towards his drink , ‘ if I can be bothered to write it . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a primitive sexuality lurking here , ’ the narrator , who was very pleased with his voice , said at one point , catching my interest briefly . |
| 14 | ‘ My father would have wanted music with it , ’ she said at one point . |
| 15 | Anna said at one point : " Jill 's not eating . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've also phoned the hospital , ’ he said at one point . |
| 17 | Yeah he did n't really care he was n't too bothered but at least that 's what he said at one point |
| 18 | Perry 's manager Sally Dickinson said at one point Mr Glenn had tried to switch on a light to raise the alarm but had been threatened with violence . |
| 19 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |