Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lucky me , ’ I ought to say at this point with whatever the typographical symbol for a wink and a leer is . |
| 2 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 3 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 4 | I must admit at this stage I though I had cracked it but I should have known after so many years of breeding fish , success is not guaranteed . |
| 5 | I must admit at this juncture that I 'm on Graham Taylor 's side on this one . |
| 6 | I must say at this point that all the controls have a nice , rubberised feel to them , although they may be slightly on the flimsy side for any serious , rough handling . |
| 7 | Everybody ( and I must say at this point all participants were over the age of 16 , the legal age of drinking in Germany ) got very mellow and slept well . |
| 8 | ‘ But I must stick at that . |
| 9 | I should think at that time the employers thought , Well we do n't want to be arguing about wages every five minutes during this War business you know and they all got b you know they got bags of work you know that of course , do n't you ? |
| 10 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 11 | I have passed your letter to the Administration Section of the Department for formal processing , however , I should like at this stage to thank you for your contribution to the work of Lothian Trading Standards Department , and wish you well with your future career at |
| 12 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 13 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 14 | I should say at this point that I have no reason to think my man has ever been unfaithful to me . |
| 15 | Yeah I 'll stop at that . |
| 16 | And have you ever been emotionally abused by a man , is the final question I 'll ask at this stage ? |
| 17 | If there is n't one then we , we er er it er oh mind you I suppose there 's no hassle to them to put a Welsh thingy , anyway I 'll look at that . |
| 18 | I look at what that is in value , about two and a half thousand , I 'll look at this one , |
| 19 | It was a flimsy pretext and might not get me anywhere , but it was the best I could do at such short notice . |
| 20 | And all I could do at this terrible invasion was to rise and stand mutely , with my hands by my sides , staring up at this tremendous being — whom I now saw clearly for the first time . |
| 21 | And the other two things I could mention at this point is that erm this activity , this useful time-structured activity , brings you into contact with other people . |
| 22 | All this was meant to be experimental , but it would be better to describe it as speculative , as I have an idea that I could arrive at some sort of interesting effect if I kept trying , and the lack of certainty about the end result hardly mattered . |
| 23 | As a constable at Easton explained , ‘ I could stand at that comer there and catch a hundred people breaking some law or other in one shift , no bother . |
| 24 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 25 | At the moment I 'm not getting any results , and I could go at any time . |
| 26 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 28 | I could look at all these things and say that 's just not the right way to do it . |
| 29 | I could look at that , at you all day . |
| 30 | I 'd look at that . |