Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] at that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dauntless felt a little chagrined she was n't more impressed and grateful , but then he supposed he looked little other than a lunatic scrap himself at that moment . |
| 2 | Against an orthodoxy which at that tune was inclined to reduce faith to the mere acceptance of ‘ the truths ’ in the Bible or in the teaching of the church — an acceptance which could leave one 's inmost self unaffected , and could even involve the toleration in blind obedience of contradictions and incoherences in the official system of belief — the voice pressing the claims of reason and the inner self needed to be heard . |
| 3 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 4 | Pagina , a move which at that time necessitated his resignation from Canterbury . |
| 5 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 7 | Most backbenchers probably appreciated the force of the argument which at that stage had to remain unspoken ’ … we were not ready [ for a General Strike ] , ’ he subsequently told G. M. Young . |
| 8 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 9 | I think it 's about , I do n't know whether it 's three or four , these men in the radio tower which at that day cos you 'd never had a , a radio tower . |
| 10 | Fonda examined the premise and eventually saw that they were making a much broader statement about the American Dream and the state of the nation itself at that precise moment in time . |
| 11 | The voice was that of Woil the buzzard who at that same moment was having the door of his cage opened by one of the Men with food . |
| 12 | The historical writer Gervase ( a monk of Canterbury and contemporary of Becket ) , although sometimes using the Annunciation discipline which at that time was in more general use , preferred for the bulk of his work , Chronica , Gesta Regum , etc. , the Christmas system — much to the irritation of later writers . |