Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thus it was that she came to be , on that February evening , poised at the very crown of the hill in Kensington Gardens , looking down the hill , with her back to Bayswater and home and trembling with the fear that she had at last grown up . |
| 2 | One more guilty secret that Maggie felt obliged to keep from everyone was the deep fear and disgust that she felt at the thought of sexuality . |
| 3 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 4 | Story has it that when Minton hung this portrait at Allen Street it so offended an art critic that he spat at it . |
| 5 | Cos , on , on the tape that we had at that party we were |
| 6 | U T was just that random error term that we looked at . |
| 7 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 8 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 9 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 10 | But here I am once again running into the kind of difficulty that I noted at the end of my last chapter when I quoted Christine Hugh-Jones ' apposite phrase about the work of the social anthropologist being a matter of sorting out the meaning of a " muddling mass " of detailed data . |
| 11 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |
| 12 | A casual rapping that he knew at once was Marie . |
| 13 | Blanche was happy as she walked out , confident at the end of the afternoon that she had at last found an explanation for Tatyana Nowak 's suicide , and the first direct link between a particular human being and the murder . |
| 14 | ‘ And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 16 | We can see the similarities here between the scientific approach to organisations and its similarity to bureaucracy that we looked at in the previous chapter . |
| 17 | This seems like a pretty powerful case for the free enterprise ideal espoused in the Conservative Election Manifesto that we quoted at the beginning of the chapter . |
| 18 | Though widely reported , it is uncertain whether on 10 September Moltke , in fact , informed the Kaiser , ‘ Majesty , we have lost the war ’ ; if so , it showed a flash of strategic prescience that he displayed at no other moment in his military career . |
| 19 | His right hand was half hidden by the cover flap of the holster that he wore at his belt . |
| 20 | would n't you get one in that Princess that you got at first ? |
| 21 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 22 | Can I perhaps to that point raise an issue that we discussed at the meeting , and that was this whole point about de-sulphurisation , and use of low sulphur coal . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is no accident that he began at last to find his true identity as a painter , although his dream of sculpting still haunted him . |
| 24 | Having failed dismally with a bicycle pump and an unidentified device that I found at the back of my Dad 's garden shed , I stumbled across what seemed like a promising routine and set aside the whole of Boxing Day to test it out . |
| 25 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 26 | It was at this moment that there arrived at AFHQ a " personal " and " urgent " signal for Alexander from Gen McCreery , the Commander of Eighth Army , whose 13 Corps and 5 Corps were directly involved in the front line in North-East Italy and Austria . |
| 27 | I do n't see that we 're doing anybody any harm , any damage , any anything , by simply saying we 'll go out and consult the people of Chipping Norton about this new site that we found at Rockhill . |
| 28 | The three glossed signs from transcript 1 ( KNOCKED , CAME , WHAT ? ) represent three propositions with the meaning that someone knocked at the door , the person inside came and tried to find out what it was . |
| 29 | It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him . |
| 30 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |