Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different theoretical traditions , it is sometimes claimed , belong to ‘ incommensurable paradigms ’ ( Kuhn , 1962 ) ; one can work within only one of them at a time . |
| 2 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 3 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 4 | You act on one of them at a time , and then decide which , if any , is going to be most productive . |
| 5 | She had removed the brushes , but , both at once , instead of one at a time . |
| 6 | Think of one at a time . |
| 7 | But the man at the front had n't been told this of course , naturally enough and he could n't see that so suddenly with a jolt the wardrobe left him , two steps ' worth instead of one at a time . |
| 8 | I was n't allowed to go anywhere near them at a time when I most needed reassuring . |
| 9 | He advocates marking the stretchers off one at a time instead of squaring cross all four at once . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Using space : good — only room for one at a time |
| 12 | Beds must be made , equipment sorted and ordered , and patients dealt with one at a time . |
| 13 | They should be dealt with one at a time using the subsequent text pages . |
| 14 | And closing them piecemeal , thinking they can get away with one at a time . |
| 15 | Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Each morning at seven the members of the Brotherhood presented themselves at the dock-gates , and Josh called out their numbers , allowing them in one at a time to report for work . |
| 18 | One friend who watched their relationship deteriorate points to Prince Charles 's disinterest and total lack of respect for her at a time when Diana badly needed help . |
| 19 | The result , in the aftermath of the Japanese coup , was that immediate help to the French , who were now fighting the Japanese in Vietnam , was denied to them at a time when the US 14th Airforce in southern China could be seen by the French in Laos and Vietnam as they flew on their predetermined attacks on the Japanese elsewhere in Southeast Asia . |
| 20 | I also wonder how the system copes with changes to people 's incomes , er many people particularly in recession we heard that unemployment in Cambridge is now approaching ten percent and if you 've been turned down by the council , your council housing on your means test are you really going to go back to them at a time when you may be under a lot of stress with unemployment to have your circumstances reinvestigated , I very much doubt whether people do go back . |
| 21 | You were very kind to me at a time when I needed comforting and I 'm grateful to you . ’ |
| 22 | I only work on one at a time because I find it quite niggling if something is n't finished . |
| 23 | Send it to one at a time and be prepared to wait a good while for a reply . |
| 24 | We used to one at a time . |
| 25 | I tugged him gently along the walkway , which was made of planks , I discovered , with short mooring posts sticking up at intervals , needing me to lift his legs over one at a time . |
| 26 | She turned them over one at a time , trying to decipher the handwriting . |
| 27 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 28 | The Labour Council continues to show its concern for the least fortunate among us at a time when it has to spend time , money and effort attending the demands of increasingly authoritarian central Government and collecting the Tory Poll Tax . |
| 29 | They used to ‘ baby-sit ’ for us at a time when teenagers resent a ‘ sitter-in ’ , for we were glad to be able to leave Shanti in their care without her realising it — they were there anyway . |
| 30 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |