Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not supposed that they dealt at arm 's length . |
| 2 | Meetings are , of course , an important part of work ; indeed some people have calculated that they spend at least 60 per cent of their time in meetings of one sort or another . |
| 3 | There 's lots of new plays being written that I look at and say ‘ Oh yes — there 's lots of opportunities there ’ . |
| 4 | For him it must be said that he went at once to report the death to authority , and then came back to us and again told the same story . |
| 5 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 6 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 7 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 8 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 9 | Provided that they have at least £2,000 per week to spend on their pleasure . |
| 10 | Provided that they have at least one year 's service with the University by the expected date of birth , women are eligible for 18 weeks maternity leave on full pay , followed by up to 22 weeks unpaid maternity leave . |
| 11 | Shortly before his death in the next year , Henry III granted to his queen , Eleanor , the custody ‘ of the castle and forest of Windsor and the seven hundreds , and the towns of Old Windsor , Bray and Kempton , during pleasure ’ , provided that she accounted at the Exchequer as Nicholas de Yattendon , the previous constable and warden , had done . |
| 12 | The words were so softly spoken that she wondered at first if she 'd heard correctly . |
| 13 | However , even in these cases , it is found that there exist at least distribution valued singularities just at these points . |
| 14 | The author of a recent book on the history of clocks and their influence on the modern world has remarked that anyone looking at the techniques of time measurement throughout the world in , say , the eleventh century ‘ would have given odds that the Chinese would develop a mechanical clock well before the Europeans ’ . |
| 15 | But as regards his goods and chattels , which include his leaseholds , it is early admitted that he has at least a limited power to dispose by will — limited because his wife and children may have rights which he can not override . |
| 16 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 17 | The Princesse had insisted that they gather at the Waldorf for a light lunch . |
| 18 | She had suggested that they look at Van Gogh together , setting up another form of repetition , deliberate , contrived and aesthetic . |