Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 2 | The guests were never less than courteous to one another , but for all that , a rather tense atmosphere , characterized largely by distrust , seemed to prevail at this stage . |
| 3 | No , ’ the brief self-mocking laugh seemed to tear at this throat , ‘ I want far more than that . |
| 4 | The ideological basis of Kremlin policy seemed confirmed at this time by Stalin , who declared in a speech in February 1946 that the Second World War had vindicated the Soviet system of government . |
| 5 | some proverbs , I ca n't think can you complete these proverbs good book up there for that I do n't know at all , there 's something wrong Ooh this looks really good got look at this book , all the streets it 's got like The House of Commons and The House of Lords |
| 6 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 7 | Marguerite began to laugh at this challenge to Alain , and he fixed Jenna with derisive eyes . |
| 8 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 9 | The door of his room was open , his desk was unlocked , and I decided to look at this memento . |
| 10 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 11 | He was blond with deep-set brown eyes which looked troubled at this moment , and he was well dressed . |
| 12 | Some of those who failed choose at this stage nonetheless to drop out . |
| 13 | In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 , but his enemies , by a gangster-like trick , did much later produce an unsigned document ( long after Bellarmine was dead ) claiming that Galileo had promised not to teach or publicise the Copernican doctrine . |
| 14 | All he did know at this moment was that it seemed a shame a girl such as Maggie here , with brains , because she was no fool , and a talent such as she had , should be encased in a body that held no appeal . |
| 15 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 16 | His subsequent letters to her reveal a side of his personality that Victorian biographers preferred to suppress At this point it seems that Wolfgang was interested in matters more scatological than sexual ; his humour is of the smutty adolescent variety that was evidently taken for granted in Salzburg middle class society . |
| 17 | It was strange that their paths had crossed at this crisis in all their lives . |
| 18 | A grim reminder of how ground attack/dive bombing had become at this stage of the war in Italy . |
| 19 | He had arrived at this place , this vantage point on the hill , in order to become anyone , not knowing who ; not knowing what . |
| 20 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 21 | Melody was the last person he wanted to see at this moment , but he reined in when she called him . |
| 22 | Alice stood marvelling at this thought : that only a couple of days ago Mary Williams had seemed to hold her own fate Alice 's — in her hands ; and now Alice had difficulty in even remembering her status . |