Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] at [det] stage " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dealt very little with guitar techniques and almost entirely with musicality and musical ideas , which is what I needed at that stage . |
| 2 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 3 | Marx and Engels suggest that priests were the first ideologists who emerged at this stage . |
| 4 | We agreed at that stage that while we would no longer take any active part in the management of the venture , we would continue to provide financial support via our guarantees . |
| 5 | We realized at this stage that it would be difficult for this strand of non-print publishing to develop from existing production expertise , however advanced the latter 's use of electronics to produce print more cheaply and more flexibly . |
| 6 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 7 | But it was Emlyn Williams he conquered at that stage and Emlyn Williams mattered . |
| 8 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 9 | It was our duty , he felt at that stage , to desist from overpopulating the planet . |
| 10 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 11 | He held at that stage the Ace and Jack of Spades and 2 cards in Diamonds . |