Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 2 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 3 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the leaders of Anti-Racist Alliance want to build up an effective anti-racist movement , they should desist from the kind of stupid sectarianism that I witnessed at the recent March for Justice in the London borough of Newham . |
| 6 | The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ? |
| 7 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 8 | He gave me schnapps and insisted that I stay at the hotel the SS man had mentioned . |
| 9 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ This is a warning that I flagged at the Council conference two years ago : where is the small firm going to be ? |
| 12 | the first thing that I do at the beginning of the lesson is one sec |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 16 | There are two possible ways in which the bells can be arranged so that someone arriving at the door can signal their arrival to a person in a specific apartment . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 19 | The one that she had at the pool she threw on the swimming pool floor in disgust cos I put her back in the carrycot thing Yeah Ev Evelyn was saying oh will I , she said will you see me back er she said will I see you back in in the twos group ? |
| 20 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Julia was so far out of her usual self-control that she whimpered at the prick of the needle . |
| 23 | Since she was not particularly enamoured of Madame de Montijo it is little wonder that she arrived at the Cathedral in a state of high discontent . |
| 24 | In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point . |
| 25 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 26 | I tell your dad cos he called you , he said that you go at a snail 's pace did n't he today ? |
| 27 | ‘ I would prefer that you looked at the model first . ’ |
| 28 | A savings plan is also an annuity but in this case the cash that you pay in builds up to a sum that you receive at the end of the plan 's term . |
| 29 | Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size |
| 30 | I remember that song that you mentioned that you quoted at the beginning of the programme ‘ Look into the Irish , the Welsh and the Scot , you 'll find he 's a stinker as likely as not ’ is how it went on . |