Example sentences of "at a time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow in One Day at a Time we see how some families have coped with bringing up children who 've suffered head injuries . |
| 2 | It 's only one that can do it at a time we all have a role to play , we 're all part of that body are n't we that we 've looked at in some , what a lovely description it is , and some of us do n't look quite as good as the other part do we ? |
| 3 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 4 | After all , even when teachers are teaching their students to communicate in one language at a time they need to examine the principles of communication . |
| 5 | So wha who and he started getting all those carry on like that all one at a time they walk out . |
| 6 | at a time they had , they had a lot from |
| 7 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 8 | One thing at a time she could have handled , but this … it was no wonder she suddenly felt that she did n't have the strength to carry on arguing . |
| 9 | Virginia Woolf defined it inimitably when she wrote that ‘ for pages at a time he writes that terse springy prose which is the natural speech of a school of writers trained to the business of moving a large company briskly from one incident to another over the solid earth ’ . |
| 10 | One step at a time I always say . |
| 11 | One at a time I heaved them up onto the pedals , just in time to roll out downwind . |
| 12 | So much so that for weeks at a time I could live without eidetiking at all . |
| 13 | I am indebted to husband John for pushing me into the purchase at a time I obviously needed the machine but was not very full of vim and zip to get it and learn it . |
| 14 | Hey one at a time , one at a time I want to go to Audrey Wise in a second . |
| 15 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |
| 16 | To actually go through it a bit at a time I mean the majority of it is fine |
| 17 | Since lexicographers can only proof single entries at a time it is not envisaged that providing this space will cause a problem . |
| 18 | The problem was that the whole thing had become so complex — it was n't only what he was going to do now but there was the stuff back at the club , there was Ashdown and what he knew , there was the whole sorry business of his suspension and the charges against him … taken one piece at a time it seemed bad enough , but taken all together it was far too much for his mind to handle . |
| 19 | If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps . |