Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pron] at a " in BNC.

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1 With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre .
2 See , see , I mean if you take a , if you take a , look at it at a point of view of
3 He told me he used to catch the train from Penn Station , New York , get off it at a station called Back Bay where a car would be waiting for him .
4 Just ask for them at a maternity clinic or child health clinic and show your Income Support payment book or , if you 're paid by girocheque , the letter that came with the girocheque .
5 Think of one at a time .
6 It was the Guga Hunters who had chartered Viking to land the men and supplies ' on Sula Sgeir and return for them at a specified date .
7 Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all .
8 I only work on one at a time because I find it quite niggling if something is n't finished .
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