Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] at that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that it was not open to the defendant to raise at that stage the question of the validity of the notice to quit . |
| 2 | Patsy 's brother Dennis also played for the club and did not appreciate the secretary 's habitual greeting : ‘ with me bleedin ’ ribs pokin ’ out of me skin , breakin ’ me neck to get at that six and eight ’ ( the initial sum dispensed by the Secretary ) , Dennis Hendren had not wintered well ’ and did not believe Middlesex looked after its players out of season . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're both a delight to watch at that , ’ Julia went on . |
| 4 | Well this would be the ideal opportunity to look at that because obviously planning now for the future gives you an opportunity just as you 've done with your maxi-endowment |
| 5 | more reluctant to so infer , particularly where the applicant did not know of his right to object at that stage . |
| 6 | And she has got the courage to look at that million people , which takes courage , and look at the thousand which she is helping and saying , no love is never wasted . |
| 7 | With the British having more distance to cover at that time than any other nation , including the Americans : ‘ Cable enterprises supplanted the railways as popular investments ’ 2 . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think it would be sensible for a woman to go at that time of night into the house of an unmarried man ? ’ she asked . |
| 9 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 10 | Certainly from the spring of 1918 Lenin was almost obsessed by the need to get grain to the cities of the north-west , for it was their turn to starve at that time . |
| 11 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 12 | A lorry was hired to carry our furniture and other belongings to Fontanellato , not an easy thing to arrange at that time as there were few local drivers willing to travel so far . |
| 13 | Liza did not know how she got back to her billet , only that she had bicycled so fast and furiously that , as she flung herself on her bed , she thought , grimly , that if anyone had reason to miscarry at that juncture it was she herself . |
| 14 | The other factor probably the way to look at that more objectively is to see how many houses are in proximity to each of the routes which is a standard way again in the departments own er manual of environmental appraisal , of doing that and that is the information which is contained find it er which is a way of looking at noise effects . |
| 15 | I ask my hon. Friend the Minister to look at that . |
| 16 | The best way to arrive at that intelligence is through research . |
| 17 | Sure enough , Version 3.4 sports SmartIcons , like its Windows relation , which give a pictorial way to get at that power more intuitively than the still-resident backslash menus . |
| 18 | We have n't had time to look at that either have we ? |
| 19 | In relation to the association of District Council 's erm proposition , that was a development package , and obviously groups want to meet in time to look at that , so we 'll see if we can find some more information on that one . |