Example sentences of "say [conj] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 2 | He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy . |
| 3 | Caro Hunt says that at the age of five he could beat her and it was then she realised he had a lot of promise . |
| 4 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
| 5 | ‘ In the gospels , Sir John , Christ says that at the end of the world the very heavens will rock and the planets fall to earth in a fiery blaze . ’ |
| 6 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 7 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 8 | ‘ I do not consider that it can be said that at the moment of striking the child , he [ the father ] had the necessary evil intent or wilfulness to justify a finding either that he assaulted the child or that he wilfully ill-treated her . |
| 9 | said that at the beginning of the year , I do n't know what way they predict this or whatever way they it goes you know |
| 10 | Er Foster and Allen are here and when I said that at the beginning of the programme it started a flurry of phone calls as to where they were . |
| 11 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 12 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 13 | Antonia , talking in London , said that at the end of the day ‘ you are responsible for your own actions ’ . |
| 14 | He said that at the end of the day the appeal court was concerned with the proper interpretation of the act and the issue turned on the words used in it . |
| 15 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 16 | Yesterday , the advocate-depute , Elizabeth Jarvie , said that at the time of the incident , the line would have been used by freight trains carrying petroleum products from Grangemouth as well as by the London sleeper . |
| 17 | Suffice it to say that at the point of commissioning it is a good idea to know which you are planting ! |
| 18 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 19 | At the second appeal Murphy 's conviction was quashed , a new witness coming forward to say that at the time of the murder in Luton he had seen Murphy in a London street . |