Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 2 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 3 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 4 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |
| 5 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |