Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But is the thing is budget led at this stage , I mean is n't that , are we really , is n't the
2 As the driver stopped at this junction the girl managed to jump out of the car .
3 What if an enemy appeared at this moment ?
4 A slim example of western luxury nestled at this moment in Anna 's vagina .
5 No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] .
6 Not , of course , that all the policies of the mature Balcon emerged at this period .
7 My imagination faltered at this point ; but I lingered over it , returning over and over again to the discovery of my heroine 's and my own female body , and the male contemplation of it .
8 The Captain wondered at this hatred which was stronger even than family loyalty .
9 Any irritation Tolkien felt at this appropriation of his own imaginative world did not prevent him from doing his best for the book .
10 Its clamourings against solitude were a constant distraction from the cooler processes of thought ; yet even as her spirit chafed at this conflict between body and mind , Louisa understood that such stress was specific to her task and not to be avoided .
11 The British Government stumbled at this hurdle , and in fact failed simply because domestic law did not regulate the circumstances in which the power could be exercised with sufficient clarity .
12 ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders .
13 Life remained at this stage of development for a vast period .
14 And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance …
15 Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was .
16 One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary .
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