Example sentences of "at the [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen .
2 He was a man who was used to the supernatural but he was amazed at the things that he saw !
3 Left : Gerald Nye ( P&O Cruises ) reassured friends at the reunion that his superb white Volvo ( 200 series ) is still going strong
4 You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’
5 It 's because you ca n't just sit down and di if you do n't know how to spell , I ca n't spell anyway , d' you know when I did it , the student actually wrote a letter to me and to th or to the exam board car saying that this hand-writing is appalling and the spelling , it 's due to the person who was doing the amanuensing , rather th but I was marking it anyway so it did n't really matter , but they were so distressed at the handwriting that I produced .
6 We 've got to look at the recession that we are in .
7 There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road .
8 Management ought to look at the work that you do and that you could be asked to do under any contractual ‘ flexibility ’ provisions before finally deciding upon the groups of people from which redundancy candidates will be sought .
9 There was a suggestion at the inquest that he sought to relieve himself out of the window rather than trudge down to the jakes in the basement , a distressing but not unprecedented recourse for chaps well gone in their cups .
10 Dr. Lane of Bishop 's Castle gave his opinion at the inquest that he died ‘ from an attack of cerebral apoplexy ’ .
11 Lieutenant Colonel Bob Stewart , Cheshires ' Commanding Officer , said in a statement read at the inquest that he believed the fatal shot may have been fired by either a Moslem or Croat gunman acting on his own initiative .
12 But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return .
13 ‘ You say she cleared out ; I suppose you looked at the possibility that she went — wherever she did go — not of her own free will ? ’
14 Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim
15 She started , feeling her colour rise at the possibility that he might have an inkling of what was going on in her head at that precise moment !
16 So all you do now , you look at the questions that you 've answered , and let's say for question one , you gave erm , a two to G , the two goes in there , one to F , you move along there , three to H , you move along there .
17 The amount at the top that you need is just enough to tie a reef knot oh I 've forgot to show you a reef knot did n't I ?
18 He said at a reception at the circuit that it was amazing that modern grand prix cars could lap so fast on the twisty and demanding Leicestershire circuit .
19 Hamish had taken up the managerial place at the factory that everyone had expected would be Kenneth 's , when Kenneth had decided to teach .
20 Not all of those people by a long way have any olympic ambitions but is nonetheless an important part of the perspective and indeed at the triangle that we need to support .
21 And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge .
22 To me , he wrote on 10 February as follows , the invective being tempered by the desire expressed at the beginning that we should have in due course a prolonged tête-à-tête :
23 I said at the beginning that you were gon na come and listen to our stories you also had
24 I thought at the beginning that you were working with him , that it was your revenge for Eddie 's death .
25 See what I 'm saying is ask a nice open question an easy one at the beginning that you know most people are bound to understand you get a lot of participation and then start building it up .
26 what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ?
27 There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget .
28 If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day .
29 As to the rest of the hon. Gentleman 's question , I said at the beginning that I thought the less said the better .
30 ‘ I said right at the beginning that it would be a good thing if those two got together .
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