Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at the [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 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was widely recognised at the time that these practices were the tip of a much larger iceberg of old-age abuse . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 30 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |