Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] [vb past] at the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 .
5 Will he convey to the Prime Minister what I know to be the view of the three party leaders who represent Northern Ireland in the House — that we are endeavouring diligently to meet the wishes that he expressed at the Downing street meeting on 11 February ?
6 It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column .
7 This seems like a pretty powerful case for the free enterprise ideal espoused in the Conservative Election Manifesto that we quoted at the beginning of the chapter .
8 Can I perhaps to that point raise an issue that we discussed at the meeting , and that was this whole point about de-sulphurisation , and use of low sulphur coal .
9 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 .
10 That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago .
11 I am happy to acknowledge the views of the Northern Ireland Economic Council , and the questions that it had at the time of its submission need to be dealt with .
12 We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ .
13 It 's it 's the same procedure that we accepted at the Finance Committee last Friday , and in mentioning it and hoping it will be acceptance that Longman 's can have the benefit of the Personnel 's sub-committee contribution for the next hour and a half or so .
14 Oh yes , but they were just things that you tied at the back and and er had a frilled round here They were bonny .
15 The flashes of ridicule or condescension that he directed at the " old men " in Vichy undermined confidence in his opponents .
16 I think it 's the reconciliation based on perhaps some of the problems that we had at the lost last stock take which are accelerated You know probably the odd miscount here and there this time .
17 How does the Prime Minister reconcile the welcome emphasis that he placed at the Commonwealth conference on the extension of democratic government throughout the Commonwealth with the continuing reluctance of the Government to give any form of democratic control over their own lives to the people of Wales and Scotland ?
18 The prosecution finally dropped its charges when Robert McFarlane , National Security Adviser in 1983-85 and thus North 's superior , who was brought before Gesell on Sept. 11 as a test case to decide whether proceedings should continue , declared that North 's congressional testimony had a " very powerful impact " on him and " coloured " evidence that he gave at the original trial .
19 President Chiluba has our best wishes to help him get on with the job ; we shall do our best to assist him , because the election was a fine example of the principles that we endorsed at the recent Heads of Government meeting in Harare .
20 Great praise has been given to Mr. Baker , the United States Secretary of State , for arranging that conference and so fulfilling the commitment that he gave at the time of the Gulf war , when he said that he and President Bush would do all that they could to bring the parties to the negotiating table .
21 What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that .
22 Clearly we do not wish to go through the same debate that we had at the greenbelt inquiry , erm but it is very relevant erm you 'll see from our submissions to the panel that er quite clearly the City Council did not agree entirely with the proposed boundary of the greenbelt , the City Council did take the view that there were certain areas of land proposed to be included in the greenbelt er which did not fulfil a greenbelt function in the Council 's view , and that was clearly was discussed at the greenbelt inquiry , it was not just one site , er we clearly were not not in our er responsibility to identify a specific site outside our district , but there were a number of areas er subject to those objections , not just from ourselves , but as Mr erm Donson has said er from various objectors .
23 That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . "
24 In that short interval we managed to grab a couple of milk crates and a door that we found at the edge of a building site .
25 ‘ This is a warning that I flagged at the Council conference two years ago : where is the small firm going to be ?
26 The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting .
27 I think it 's the kind of food we 're using cos it 's different food from the food that we had at the beginning .
28 In desperation she slammed the stop-cock open and precious oxygen knifed outwards in an icy cloud that she aimed at the farthest point .
29 No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world .
30 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 .
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