Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [indef pn] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 2 | Beds must be made , equipment sorted and ordered , and patients dealt with one at a time . |
| 3 | They should be dealt with one at a time using the subsequent text pages . |
| 4 | Think of one at a time . |
| 5 | More seriously , his understated , meditative style is lost : the impression is that his timing is fine , the audience 's is all wrong : ‘ I was talking to someone at a party the other night … he happened to mention that he was reading Virginia Woolf 's letters . |
| 6 | And just to make things really tough the matches are rovers with each angler sent off one at a time to pick his swim , putting the emphasis on reading the water . |
| 7 | I only work on one at a time because I find it quite niggling if something is n't finished . |