Example sentences of "that [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 2 | Kendall will come under increased pressure if he loses this fourth round replay and he is not prepared to keep faith with the players that failed him at Bramall Lane . |
| 3 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 4 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 5 | Er that concludes ours at this moment Mr . |
| 6 | That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’ |
| 7 | PS Do let me know if there 's anything in the script that worries you at all — my home number is 01 228 9066 . |
| 8 | Yes , did you find that hindered you at all ? |
| 9 | Looked again , more carefully this time , and saw no-one that resembled her at all . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's the time of death that concerns me at present , sir , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Er Trading Standards Officers have been helping the police have made a large number of visits to sales in recent months targetting those where we know or suspect there will be concentration of counterfeiter goods and these stolen items we 've been taking and seizing items , we 've been making inspections and er we will also be distributing some leaflets to try and advise people of some of the risks and dangers that face them at this sort of event . |
| 12 | It is a magic one , though only modestly so : ‘ He that blows it at need shall set fear in the hearts of his enemies and joy in the hearts of his friends , and they shall hear him and come to him . ’ |
| 13 | They were impressed by her intelligent appreciation of political matters and took to consulting her on political problems that confronted them at work . |
| 14 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 15 | I think that one of the things that get me at the moment is the time keeping , it 's very bad |
| 16 | He has also pointed to the way in which metaphor joins dissimilar experiences by finding a symbol or image that unites them at a deeper level of meaning ( ibid , p. 63 ) . |
| 17 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 18 | Then the reader 's fingernail will be able to produce the scent of clematis that wafts in through my window , the foie gras that awaits me at lunch , the liquid inspiration that gets me through the final paragraph . |
| 19 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 20 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 21 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 22 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 23 | And it was this background you see that er that er th th that gave me at least the need for to play some some part in |
| 24 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 25 | A sentiment that ambushed her at the coldest moments . |
| 26 | What Freud provides is a workable and , on the whole , convincing hypothesis or model that enables us at least to describe , if not to explain , the workings of the mind — that is , people 's behaviour and people 's creations , such as visual art and literature . |
| 27 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 28 | Moreover , the observer at A forms a picture of the white hole on the basis of all the light rays that reach him at the same time . |
| 29 | Eventually the scars healed , more or less , and today many apparently natural heaths are no more than those ancient tips , covered in vegetation that colonised them at its own slow rate . |
| 30 | But our intention is to take account of your views and address the issues that concern you at the earliest practicable opportunity . |