Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 2 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 3 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 4 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 5 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 6 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 7 | from Liverpool Street I wanted to get to Oxford Circus which meant that I had to change at , I forget where now , because I 'm in such a , a muddle now after all this , |
| 8 | amazed that I had returned at all , and |
| 9 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 10 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 11 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 12 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 13 | ‘ There was something I remembered that I wanted to look at , and I thought it would be an interesting place to spend my leave . |
| 14 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 15 | She started to wish that she had stayed at the table . |
| 16 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |
| 17 | It was alleged that she had embezzled at least $5,700,000 from housing foreclosure sales handled for HUD between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 18 | Behind her was the backdrop of green garden foliage , and just out of her reach , on a small coffee-table that she had positioned at Faye 's instruction , stood an enormous vase filled with flowers — all red ones , ranging from deepest crimson to a vibrant vermilion orange . |
| 19 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 20 | All the turmoil of the past weeks pressed down on her now , that she had arrived at her destination : this slightly tawdry student house with its worn second-hand furniture where she was so obviously unwelcome . |
| 21 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 22 | That she had slept at all was an encouraging sign that the contamination was fading . |
| 23 | How could she not have known she was in love with him ? she wondered — it seemed impossible to believe that she had looked at him , touched him , made love with him , and not known until yesterday . |
| 24 | But even as the insult shaped itself in her larynx she discovered that she had smiled at him , openly , quickly , but unmistakably warm . |
| 25 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 26 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 27 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 28 | It must be remembered that W. was not refusing all medical treatment — she was merely expressing the view that she wished to remain at Dr. M. 's clinic . |
| 29 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |
| 30 | Mummy anyway , you know that you enjoyed looking at The Bounty ? |