Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 2 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 3 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 4 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 5 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
| 6 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 7 | She started to wish that she had stayed at the table . |
| 8 | Kopp testified that she had thought at the time that the information was based on " rumours from banking circles " . |
| 9 | Sandra , but she preferred Sandy , told us that she 'd worked at the Exhilarator for five months but was just biding her time before she could move away from her mother and get her own place in London . |
| 10 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |
| 11 | Mummy anyway , you know that you enjoyed looking at The Bounty ? |
| 12 | He had stuck to his story , that they 'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 14 | In Brightside the Unionist candidate had been specially demobilised for the election ; the Central Office agent for Yorkshire persuaded him to stand down , but it took a visit to Central Office before his supporters could be persuaded to support a Coalition Liberal that they had opposed at the last three elections . |
| 15 | They had claimed containers of worms found in their car had been dug in an unprotected area elsewhere and that they had stopped at the bay to gather mussels . |
| 16 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |
| 17 | Writing about this film thirty years later John Clellan Holmes recalled how as an adolescent he had been initiated into manhood by the momentary revelation of ‘ the soft , white trembling curve of Jean Harlow 's breast ’ , but even at the time Welford Beaton argued that it had succeeded at the box-office because more than any other picture we have had , it demonstrates that the true mission of the screen is to supply visual entertainment' . |
| 18 | He loved the bittersweet aura of it all , the mixture of ecstasy and debasement that he felt lay at the paradoxical heart of life . |
| 19 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 20 | At least he 'd made someone happy , he thought drily , regretting that he 'd snarled at the lad in front of him . |
| 21 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 22 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 23 | He confessed to Beaton all that he had done at the behest of the English king , including ‘ the suppression of sundry abbeys and friaries ’ . |
| 24 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 25 | In Aden Nizan rediscovered his emotional strength , rediscovered , in short , the personality that he had relinquished at the age of twelve , at the moment of his father 's personal crisis . |
| 26 | While Jimmy stood at the reception desk counter , both arms spread out on it backwards in the same pose that he had adopted at the bar counter earlier that evening , Duvall simply stood two feet by his side , watching him . |
| 27 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 28 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 29 | After several years , therefore , when the illness recurred , Margaret sent after Richard only to learn that he had died at the hour she was afflicted . |
| 30 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |