Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
2 | Everyone involved at this period put in time and effort far beyond what might have been predicted . |
3 | I gazed at this scene thinking that of all of the things I wanted when I was grown up , the one I wanted most was to play a harmonium . |
4 | Well we were n't anyway there was very few pe , I mean at this time of the year I suppose but there was one place and it said Sunday lunch , there was a sort of black board outside , Sunday lunch erm four pound was it four fifty it was four fifty was n't it ? |
5 | Well this is about , I mean at this point it 's about one o'clock in the morning . |
6 | I met at this time a number of adopted children , and realised that the problems we all faced were similar , whatever the child 's colour happened to be . |
7 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
8 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
9 | Well but I mean that 's an example and as I say at this end where you 've no arousal you 're either asleep or dead , there 's no sort of performance performance of any sort and we talk about having those butterflies in the stomach do n't we ? |
10 | ‘ The album itself is everything I want at this stage … but y'know you just ca n't predict how people will take it . ’ |
11 | All her own passion had died out of her : she felt deflated ; she had the desire to laugh , and she almost did as she said , ‘ Yes , I know what I want at this moment and that 's something to eat and then to get downstairs again , because , you know , it 's Father 's night for the club . ’ |
12 | Am I looking at this file at all anxiously ? |
13 | I hope at this point your self-image has improved dramatically . |
14 | And every time I look at this card I take in everything on it and er , at a subliminal level . |
15 | I look at this bunch of bruisers bouncing around my street and I tell you I 'm impressed . |
16 | Well I look at this quiz thing called Bamboozle and the quiz master 's called Bamber Boozler , which I think 's a bit sad but they sa , you send in , you 're supposed to send in twenty questions and they put them on . |
17 | And when I arrived at this party , she is totally unsubtle and sometimes very rude , you know , and er |
18 | I recall at this period that I had a new second pilot by the name of Saltzgaber , who was first generation Canadian but German born , The target was Mannheim , When we got into the area we found that thick cloud covered what we thought was tie target , so we went down , But there was no way we were going to get under . |
19 | John and I rebelled at this kind of regimentation but Andrew and Ernest just smiled and said nothing . |
20 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
21 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
22 | One feels that two hours spent in one or other of the jammed little rooms — there are four as far as I remember at this instance , two down , one up , and one in the cellar — will be rewarding , refreshing , and never questioned by the owners . |
23 | ‘ Well , I suppose at this point we retire and leave the gentlemen to their port . |
24 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
25 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
26 | I looked at this detail with some interest , thinking it would probably tell a psychologist a great deal about Victor Frankenstein 's thought processes during this period of his engagement . |
27 | Other performance results are more difficult to quantify , but a basic uncached 25MHz 486SX PC turned in Power Test results of around 7,000 to 7,500 , while the uncached Greenfield 33MHz machine I looked at this month came in at 8,619 . |
28 | So how did I arrive at this mix ? |
29 | ‘ But I felt less affection and respect for you when I said it then , than I do at this minute , when I ca n't honestly say it . |
30 | I 'm not entirely clear what I do at this point . |