Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down at this desk with a ledger . |
| 2 | Er I 'm still trying to digest the er implications of er these various er flows but just to comment perhaps at this stage on the possibility or otherwise of er defining a er a district location . |
| 3 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 4 | A complementary body of work was carried out at this time by Flavell and his colleagues ( 1981 ) . |
| 5 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 6 | Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’ |
| 7 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 8 | He often dropped in at this time of day , and frequently stayed for a drink on the veranda and an inspection of Faye 's work in the air-conditioned studio at the back of the house that would be used more and more as the hot summer approached . |
| 9 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 10 | An RSPCA official said : ‘ This all seems very pointless because wasps die out at this time of year anyway . ’ |
| 11 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |
| 12 | I beg the Foreign Secretary to look again at this issue with the utmost scepticism . |
| 13 | But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future . |
| 14 | Thus , although some of the topics are outside the main scope of this book , we look briefly at this matter in this section . |
| 15 | In this paper I shall thus look systematically at this break with the aura of high modernist art in the 1920s ' avant-garde and in more recent decades . |
| 16 | Another character turns up at this stage in the obese and blustering form of Judge Sir John Popham . |
| 17 | The school owed much at this time to the support of William Smyth , Bishop of Lincoln , who was one of the founders of Brasenose College in 1509 . |
| 18 | ‘ League points are still important to us and nobody wants to miss out at this stage of the season . ’ |
| 19 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll meet him coming back at this time of day . ’ |
| 21 | What 's he doing here at this time of night ? |
| 22 | ‘ What on earth are you doing here at this time of the morning ? ’ she demanded sleepily . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course I 've got a minute — what the bloody hell d' you think I 'm doing here at this time of night ? ’ |
| 24 | Her aunt 's house was all of seven miles away and darkness fell early at this time of the year . |
| 25 | The French couple at the next table heard the scurrilous word and stared reproachfully at this affront to their palates . |
| 26 | ‘ If you think I 'm going to let you turn out at this time of night you 've got another think coming . |
| 27 | If greater efforts were put in at this level at an early stage , through early warning on emerging conflicts , many major wars could be prevented . |
| 28 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 29 | He smiled sheepishly at this tribute to his virility . |
| 30 | And I ca n't think that you 'd come round at this time of day just for a chat . " |