Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.

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1 I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold .
2 well , if you can get on with doing that thing , sit down and look through those magazines with me and I 'll show you the prices that I can get them at retail I mean at trade , all the prices cos I 've got that two and a half thousand gallon job and that is only seventy quid , so I 'm just gon na have one of those , I 'm gon na have that with a U V A filter and eight er eight watt U V A filter which is fifty quid , that then , which is for one of those tanks which is for three hundred and fifty , but that 's not , I 've that 's
3 I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid .
4 She went rapidly through the story , and remembered that she 'd read it at the time .
5 Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own .
6 Please make copies of this so that you may use them at your convenience in the future to return information to the Council .
7 ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’
8 Er one is actually getting the O H P's so that you can see them at the back .
9 After his energetic verse Cade 's prose shows that medium at its most laboured and puffy : ‘ Has my sword therefore broke through London gates , that you should leave me at the white Hart in Southwark ? ’
10 We decided to use our green ballot box that we made and painted for the Maastricht campaign for people to post their cards into so that we can count them at the end and post them all together .
11 And I had to say that they 'll do it at Brownies .
12 The German 's rates differed from girl to girl , and with some he had an arrangement that he received a commission rather than a rent per room ; the advantage here for the girls was that they could pay him at the end of the night , rather than each time they used the room And to ensure they did n't even think about cheating , he employed a " caretaker " whose job was to keep a tally of the girls and their customers .
13 Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace .
14 Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group .
15 Perhaps the best way of describing it is that it will put you at peace with yourself — which is what is intended .
16 A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him .
17 So by the end of the day , I was like , look I 've come all this way , which was n't totally true , but I said , look I 've come all this way , the bloke arranged that he would meet us at this time , and he 's not here , and like , you know , I 've come two and a half hours in the car , and I 've got ta drive home again , and we were gon na have a look at the house .
18 That he should write it at all was a measure of his egocentrism .
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