Example sentences of "at the [noun] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the peak it made a fortune — not from building houses or office blocks but from land inflation . |
| 2 | The academics ' letter to The Independent , for which signatures were gathered over the past fortnight , expressed dismay at the damage it said had been inflicted on universities and polytechnics since 1979 . |
| 3 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 4 | At the top it included the wealthiest landowners and industrialists in the land , such as Edward A. Guinness , brewer , who died in 1927 and left £13.5 million and Sir John R. Ellerman , shipowner and financier , who died in 1933 leaving £36.7 million . |
| 5 | At the opening it hung in the main section as a Ribera but later on was moved into the ‘ study section ’ . |
| 6 | At least at the beginning it lacked social support , usually freely available in the schools from which secondees came . |
| 7 | At the beginning it appeared as if those who wanted to flog Europe for being an inadequate political animal were going to win , that political union had been put off still further … |
| 8 | At the trial it appeared that the defendant was not in fact owner of the houses . |
| 9 | At the outset it established a Select Committee on the European Communities with very wide terms of reference ‘ to consider Community proposals , whether in draft or otherwise , to obtain all necessary information about them , and to make reports on those which , in the opinion of the Committee , raise important questions of policy or principle , and on other questions to which the Committee consider that the special attention of the House should be drawn ’ . |
| 10 | I was just going to say , I was just saying , that I saw the posters that erm parents and carers should erm , go along to talk about parenting and at the bottom it said , erm , will be selling multi-racial toys and dolls and things like that . |
| 11 | When the bows plunged into the slate black water at the bottom it seemed to her that they would go on diving in , engulfed by the on-rushing sea , never to return to the surface . |
| 12 | You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter . |
| 13 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 14 | He was aware of the controversial scene which had to be cut from the trailer and laughed at the problems it caused in the UK . |
| 15 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 16 | I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed . |
| 17 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 18 | John marvelled at the way it seemed to be thinking for itself . |
| 19 | To every one else at the meeting it seemed quite clear that MacDonald intended to resign , and S.B. returned front it convinced that he would have to form a Government . |
| 20 | To everyone else at the meeting it seemed quite certain that MacDonald intended to resign and SB returned from it convinced that he would have to form a government . " |
| 21 | ‘ When we arrived at the house it appeared there had been an attempt to destroy literature by burning it . |
| 22 | At the end it took a photo-finish camera to separate them , the Scotsman winning the verdict in 10.25 seconds . |
| 23 | At the end it climbed steeply onto the high ground on which the old Roman fort had been built . |
| 24 | Naively he regarded it as ‘ no big deal ’ and at times he became quite testy at the attention it commanded . |
| 25 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 26 | The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands . |
| 27 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 28 | He supposed you got bored with too much of it , but just at the moment it seemed very desirable . |
| 29 | Some time that morning they would have to find somewhere to stay , but at the moment it seemed irrelevant . |
| 30 | Perhaps on another occasion , in another mood , he would have been more sympathetically disposed towards it , but at the moment it seemed merely the repetition , however well-prepared , of a diet he knew only too well . |