Example sentences of "[pers pn] at that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so useful to have been on the road myself and to have experienced cold-calling , setting up new accounts , or merchandising accounts that did n't want to see you at that particular moment . |
| 2 | To confront you at that particular moment was deplorable . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 4 | For , though Alexander was there , he was clearly not expecting her to walk in on him at that precise moment . |
| 5 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 6 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 7 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 8 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 9 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 10 | And our comment to them at that particular stage was , ‘ Well , if that 's the case that 's the case . |
| 11 | She had once thought of herself as unique , had been encouraged ( in theory at least ) by her education and by her reading to believe in the individual self , the individual soul , but as she grew older she increasingly questioned these concepts : seeing people perhaps more as flickering impermanent points of light irradiating stretches , intersections , threads , of a vast web , a vast network , which was humanity itself : a web of which much remained dark , apparently but not necessarily unpeopled : peopled by the dark , the unlit , the dim spirits , as yet unknown , the past and the future , the dead , the unborn : and herself , and Brian , and Liz , and Charles , and Esther , and Teddy Lazenby , and Otto and Caroline Werner , and all the rest of them at that bright party , and in these discreet anonymous dark curtained avenues and crescents were but chance and fitful illuminations , chance meetings , chance and unchosen representatives of the thing itself . |
| 12 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |