Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] at that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought the liberal democrats failed abysmally at that the last election . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , given the one-roomed hovels many lived in at that period , there may indeed have been a real improvement . |
| 3 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 4 | No , well he was he I knew him quite well because I lived in at that time when I w was on that T V series , I lived at Pinner . |
| 5 | She would have stayed asleep , too , if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment . |
| 6 | Her heart beat erratically at that but she managed to shake her head in disbelief . |
| 7 | Nan came in at that moment . |
| 8 | He turned away impatiently and Jules came in at that moment , bringing coffee on a silver tray , and the conversation had to end , to Jenna 's great relief . |
| 9 | Ilse came in at that moment . |
| 10 | Twice I came off at that spot . |
| 11 | Charles baulked slightly at that and then he realized that Bernard actually thought himself Noel Coward . |
| 12 | Jack came back at that moment . |
| 13 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 14 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 15 | By good fortune , the crew turned up at that moment . |
| 16 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 17 | I asked if I could wait for Frankie but Mum , who I 'd thought was asleep , piped up at that . |
| 18 | If they are then housed for the winter the immunity acquired by the end of the grazing season has waned by the following spring and yearlings turned out at that time are partially susceptible to reinfection and so contaminate the pasture with small numbers of eggs . |
| 19 | He swung the gun up again , fired wildly at that thrashing form and turned back to the staircase . |
| 20 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 21 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 22 | Every single one of them turned round at that meeting and said , will you go and beat the out of that government for what they 're doing to us . |
| 23 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 24 | A product of the tail-end of the Northern Soul scene ( a mid-'70s underground dance phenomenon equivalent to electro/acid 's renegade '90s appeal ) , Tony and Gordon met up at that hotbed of creativity , Stockport Tech and settled in Sheffield . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to leave Ana , ’ she confessed quietly and he had no time to do anything other than look at her intently because Ana walked in at that moment , looking bright and determined . |
| 26 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 27 | Paul perked up at that and , in any case , Herr Nordern shifted the topic . |
| 28 | In order to achieve the First Five-Year Plan , figures worked out at that moment estimated that the manpower necessary for attaining the production goals at 4.1 million workers and employees ( i.e. an increase of 1 million or 33% ) . |
| 29 | Secretaries hit out at that bad office equipment |
| 30 | He probably worked hard at that tough , cynical look , she decided irritably . |