Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] at that time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 2 | In 1940 , for example , there were widespread rumours that Julius Streicher , the detestable Jew-baiter of Nuremberg who at that time had to come before Göring — of all people — to face charges of corruption , had fled across the border with 30 million Reichmarks . |
| 3 | A different , and more primitive , form of reindeer culture existed among the Samoed people of the Taimyr Peninsula who were known to the Russians in the seventeenth century as Tavgi ( today 's Nganasan ) , and the Yukagirs who at that time occupied a very large area of arctic Siberia east of the river Lena . |
| 4 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 5 | Pagina , a move which at that time necessitated his resignation from Canterbury . |
| 6 | We were glad to reach Rangoon which at that time of the year , early March , was very hot , and so Pop sent us up to Taungin-in the Shan States where we stayed with a delightful elderly American missionary , Miss Hughes . |
| 7 | When the Dada brochure , Cabaret Voltaire , was published in June 1916 it was ‘ a catch-all for the most diverse directions in art which at that time seemed to us to constitute ‘ Dada ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Those characteristics were known to that keeper or were at any time known to a person who at that time had charge of the animal as that keeper 's servant or , where that keeper is the head of a household , were known to another keeper of the animal who is a member of that household and under the age of sixteen . ’ |
| 9 | Wondering what we had let ourselves in for we anchored as near as possible to Ullapool and contacted the local staff which at that time consisted of local patrol officers backed up by two visiting officers from Dingwall . |
| 10 | Although Peter Handford had intended to return to the Bath side of the tunnel at night to make recordings of the several trains which at that time ran from the north towards Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning , he did not do so , partly because he was reluctant to visit the place in darkness and also because each time he visited Winsor Hill tunnel to make recordings he experienced problems and misfortunes of one sort or another . |
| 11 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 12 | Set up in 1942 under the unpromising name of the Taxation and Financial Relations Committee , the TAC was designed to provide a forum ( and perhaps a safety valve ) for the growing number of business members who at that time were excluded from Council membership , but who wished to contribute their business experience to the consideration of taxation and financial issues . |
| 13 | Later , when I felt that he could do with even more experience than he hid got at Warboys , I sent him up to RAF Grantham which at that time was training navigators . |
| 14 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 15 | The historical writer Gervase ( a monk of Canterbury and contemporary of Becket ) , although sometimes using the Annunciation discipline which at that time was in more general use , preferred for the bulk of his work , Chronica , Gesta Regum , etc. , the Christmas system — much to the irritation of later writers . |
| 16 | I was asked to give a detailed case of events which at that time were 18 months old , with limited documentation . |
| 17 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 18 | He describes the case of Mutang'ang'i one of the leading informals who at that time made foreguards for bicycles , bicycle stands and cutting machines using a series of hand-built metalworking machines which he had designed and built himself . |
| 19 | Another frequent brawler was Errol Flynn who included among his many opponents John Huston who at that time was a lieutenant making films for the army . |