Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
| 2 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 3 | I can only wonder at the fish that would have been caught when the river had fully fined down . |
| 4 | It is only at the end of the poem that Mariana finally despairs at the realisation that her lover will not come . |
| 5 | Generally , one topic merges into another , and it may not be easily seen at the time that a change of topic has occurred . |
| 6 | The principal aim is to create the impression from just looking at the street that it is not , just there for cars but for pedestrians , cyclists and residents too . |
| 7 | I hope that , in his discussions with the Treasury , the Minister will not just look at the statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity , and I guess with some justification , about average incomes , but that he will say that some people below that average have real problems . |
| 8 | So , can we just look at the extract that was given , what language would it have been translated from , incidentally ? |
| 9 | Just look at the way that fashion 's going . |
| 10 | However , just look at the way that refereeing has influenced certain facets of the international game . |
| 11 | And I 'm not the one with all the money — just look at the pile that Colin Appleby 's got . |
| 12 | Just look at the success that German Shepherd breeders had when they methodically examined their breeding stock and bred from those with the best hips . |
| 13 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
| 14 | Er can I just say at the outset that some of the material we 'll be covering this morning may well be classified . |
| 15 | In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’ |
| 16 | The speakers have chosen their own topics , based on their own interests and enthusiasms , and it is important that they convey their zest for the subject to an audience , preferably establishing at the outset that the subject deserves the audience 's attention . |
| 17 | David Stubbs 's metaphor for the Butthole sound pleases me immensely , for he has unwittingly and uncannily arrived at the image that haunts Bataille 's writing . |
| 18 | To this day , I still marvel at the fact that , in a country where even the most seasoned and recalcitrant dyke can be made to feel truly perverted in a very short space of time , women found , and still do find , the courage to step into the breach of difference and come out . |
| 19 | Fish which feel the need can always nibble at a plant that will help them , in the same way that cows and even dogs know which herbs to eat when they are ill . |
| 20 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 21 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 22 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
| 23 | Her voice very nearly cracked at the thought that Fen might have been making love to his girlfriend only feet away from where she , Robbie , lay . |
| 24 | It was also agreed at the meeting that , as the greater accuracy of the steel bows was enabling more archers to hit the nine inch diameter gold , an inner gold in the form of a three inch diameter black spot would be added , and the first arrow to pierce this would win the silver arrow . |
| 25 | It was also agreed at the summit that Peru should receive US$40,000,000 in aid from the other four Pact members to help it regain access to international credit lines . |
| 26 | If you have a majority of ticks here , you appreciate and enjoy the natural world , but you also look at the way that animals and plants can serve human beings . |
| 27 | We also look at the lessons that France can teach us — the French implemented a vigorous nuclear programme in the wake of the oil crisis of the l970s . |
| 28 | The Great Casterton villa excavation produced a good example ( Corder 1951 , 24 — 40 ) , but it was carefully noted at the time that this destruction by fire involved only one building and was , therefore , an accident and had no relevance to any historical event . |
| 29 | A defendant may state that he honestly thought at the time that the girl was above 16 and that he never thought to enquire , or that the girl was dressed up and wearing make-up . |
| 30 | The company is now looking at a future that is brighter than for any time in the past 20 years . |