Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at this " in BNC.

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1 It was more than a shock I put my head in my in my hand and I remember kneeling right at this spot and just crying my heart out .
2 One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains .
3 I 'm not sure whether Mrs is either able or would wish to comment necessarily at this stage but er and I but is there any possibility that in the course of the operating the R P G , although I know that circulates to me certainly .
4 It was n't that I was n't listening , I heard him all right ; but I was busy with my own thoughts , or , rather , my own feelings — the two were inextricably mixed together at this moment — and what he said was merely a background to the tumult that was going on inside me .
5 His black brows rose sceptically at this small amount of information .
6 After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time .
7 Er I 'm still trying to digest the er implications of er these various er flows but just to comment perhaps at this stage on the possibility or otherwise of er defining a er a district location .
8 And er you you you could hear them patting this butter outside a shop you know , it was a lovely sound on marble slabs and they were patting away at this butter .
9 Police declined to comment further at this stage and Mr Alec Chipstead , a chartered surveyor , was not available for questioning . ’
10 There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative .
11 I 'm sorry to report that I behaved rudely at this point .
12 Now , Guinness PLC company secretary explains : ‘ We have looked carefully at this question recently .
13 ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’
14 Patrick Parrinder has looked sardonically at this comforting but self-deceiving state of mind .
15 He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on .
16 Other members of the group shift awkwardly at this picture of Arcadia in Southall , until an economist announces coldly that ‘ it is axiomatic that anything the state does it does worse than the private sector . ’
17 I have made it a point of honour to spare you moral blackmail of the ‘ Do you honestly suppose for a single moment that I would be capable of stooping to such beastliness ? ’ variety , and I shall not waver even at this supreme moment .
18 Breakfast starts late at this wonderful Intourist institution — about 9am if you are lucky .
19 Chola winced visibly at this , and Śań4kar carried on .
20 I understand that these applications have only just been submitted to Midlothian District Council as the local planning authority and I have to advise you that it would not be appropriate for Regional Council officials to comment publicly at this stage .
21 ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands .
22 But we can treat the zero exponent on the ladder of powers as the log , since its effect on the shape of data batches fits exactly at this point ; it corrects upward straggle more powerfully than taking roots , but it is not as strong a transformation as the reciprocal root , or reciprocals .
23 Luke 's nearness seemed to reach into her core , sparking off those treacherous currents again , so that to even speak coherently at this moment was monumentally difficult .
24 The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles .
25 ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ .
26 If we had such a network , we would be able to withdraw the support which we currently give to private practitioners , but the Minister knows that we can not do so at this stage because there is no body of effective legal advice and opinion to benefit people .
27 But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London .
28 We shall be looking further at this vexed question of Christian initiation and the relation of the Holy Spirit to baptism in a later chapter .
29 It is clear that money was to be made honestly at this profession ; even clearer that forgery and other types of fraud were frequently used by moneyers as short-cuts to wealth .
30 You must do well at this , that , or the other .
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