Example sentences of "one time [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.

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1 I would say next meeting is at it 's the one time we 're going to have one .
2 And so therefore at any one time we are working , I mean that 's what we do , you know we are working at one particular area .
3 One time we were on some stunt on the airfield and the people were encroaching on the ground and we were told to push them back .
4 And it all depended on where you were , now I remember one time we were working and er both ends were in You wo n't know what that meant .
5 ‘ Fiona and I thought we 'd try something like that , one time we were in Oban , for some do .
6 " Here are the Maplin Sands , off Foulness Island , where at one time we were going to have a great new airport complex , " he said .
7 At any one time they are likely to have two hundred and fifty in various stages of recovery .
8 Since many kinds of trilobites co-existed at any one time they were probably occupying different ecological niches , behaving in different ways , corresponding with the wide variation in shape that they show .
9 The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair .
10 At one time they were very much cultivated in Provence and are still popular there .
11 And er at one time they were on the evening papers , opposite .
12 Erm I know at one time they were the motors were going to fast , the ball was .
13 No , I do n't suppose you do now , but , but I have would off worked for local authorities , because at one time they were very poorly paid .
14 At one time it was up 10.0 points .
15 At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall .
16 At one time it was the law that rape is committed only where the woman submits through force , fear , or fraud .
17 And at one time it was UK policy for fertiliser use to be encouraged by direct grants and subsidies .
18 At one time it was supposed that the ammonoids were suffering from ‘ racial senescence ’ at that time and that the uncoiling represented a kind of genetic exhaustion .
19 At one time it was thought that the brain reached its peak of potential performance when the individual was between the ages of 18 and 25 years and that , from that time onwards , it began to deteriorate .
20 At one time it was assumed that the best approach was one of stealth and caution , particularly as the most productive place to fish was invariably no more than a rod 's length away from your own bank .
21 At one time it was common for French soldiers to leave their wives with dildos ( artificial penises ) when they marched off to war , to reduce the risk of adultery while they were away .
22 At one time it was a Country club , now it is an hotel and a very popular venue for wedding receptions and other festive occasions .
23 At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus .
24 At one time it was thought that this was because the dunnock was a recent cuckoo host , but Chaucer 's reference in The Parlement of Foules makes it clear that the dunnock was a popular cuckoo host as long ago as the 14th century .
25 At one time it was only an affluent few who owned their own houses or capital assets which they could invest to increase their incomes .
26 At one time it was called ‘ frontier issues of communications ’ , where frontier was meant to indicate WACC 's presence and involvement at the forefront of contemporary thought and action .
27 At one time it was the Swanage headquarters of the Company of Marblers and Stonecutters .
28 Saint-Savin today is small , even for a village , but at one time it was the centre of power in this valley .
29 Indeed , at one time it was believed that requiring a natural left hander to use his right hand for writing would induce speech defects , such as stuttering , as a result of coopting the left hemisphere into language functions in competition with the right hemisphere ( Travis , 1931 ) .
30 At one time it was thought that high-fibre diets containing bran would be successful , but this has not proved to be the case .
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