Example sentences of "he [vb past] at that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 2 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 3 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 4 | He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available . |
| 5 | He frowned at that last . |
| 6 | He blanched at that , but it was n't the insurance premiums he was worried about . |
| 7 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 8 | He decided at that moment to make a victim of her . |
| 9 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 10 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 11 | But it was Emlyn Williams he conquered at that stage and Emlyn Williams mattered . |
| 12 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 13 | He laughed at that , pulling her closer to skim a shower of kisses across her cheek before nibbling seductively at the lobe of her ear . |
| 14 | It was our duty , he felt at that stage , to desist from overpopulating the planet . |
| 15 | He looked at that perfect suit , that perfectly inexpressive face , those cold eyes . |
| 16 | He looked at that smile . |
| 17 | And he looked at the letter and he looked at that photograph and he thought , I ca n't . |
| 18 | you go and have a look at that one in the bathroom any way he looked at that mark , so if it was any thing |
| 19 | He said Right , yes , and he looked at that and Is that everything ? |
| 20 | He smiled at that . |
| 21 | He smiled at that . |
| 22 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
| 23 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 24 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 25 | He paused at that and I 'll swear he almost looked behind him to see if anyone was earwigging . |
| 26 | He held at that stage the Ace and Jack of Spades and 2 cards in Diamonds . |