Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A system where the user presses a series of buttons without thought and gets exactly what he needs ( rather than what he at that stage thinks he wants ) is efficient but not entirely educational , any more than one so difficult that the user could only throw himself at the mercy of the person sitting at the reader 's adviser desk . |
| 2 | You 'll only spend it at the bar otherwise . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 4 | But then again , we can only hear them at the moment , but there are six of them . |
| 5 | Thus if my main concern is to have a vast stock of personal possessions and control over the lives of others , I can doubtless only have them at the expense of others . |
| 6 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 7 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 8 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 9 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 10 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 11 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 12 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 13 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 14 | You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain . |
| 15 | She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic . |
| 16 | When taking notes it is important to write down any new words or concepts , even if you do not understand them at the time . |
| 17 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 18 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 19 | In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties . |
| 20 | Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here . |
| 21 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
| 22 | But he could n't just leave her at the station . |
| 23 | More than that we can not tell you at the moment , but we will , of course , give you a full ( p ) review as soon as it is possible . |
| 24 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |
| 25 | It is naturally important to them that their children and grandchildren should know what life was like when they were young , and although younger people may not realise it at the time , a knowledge of their own family history and the characters that made it can be valuable to them , too , if they are to understand themselves and their own lives . |
| 26 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , Comrade Andropov is getting ready for the Party Congress , so he can not receive you at the moment , but you can make a detailed written statement of everything , saying who it is you suspect , and so on and so forth ’ . |
| 28 | But the significance of this did not strike him at the moment . |
| 29 | As to whether four-dimensional events rather than perceptual objects should be regarded as ontologically basic particulars , this is a metaphysical decision which need not concern us at the moment . |
| 30 | He had fought off his anger , but Jenna could still see it at the back of his eyes . |