Example sentences of "[indef pn] at the [det] " in BNC.

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1 I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ .
2 You can not do everything at the same time .
3 But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride .
4 Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation .
5 Remember you can not receive a confrontation and give one at the same time .
6 There are two ways of arranging the designs , either working on each one at the same time , or completing one before moving on to the other .
7 Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time .
8 Anyway , I always remember another one at the same time , that same Christmas .
9 He he did n't make one at the same time as , you know , to actually show the folds and that
10 Made one at the same time together .
11 The following involves everybody at the same time .
12 There is really no such thing , I think , as a perfect politician 's wife , because she has to be so many things , and yet nothing at the same time .
13 Like some of your more illustrious colleagues ( Ron Atkinson , Graham Taylor , etc. ) , you have a tendency to say a lot but to say nothing at the same time .
14 He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’
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