Example sentences of "it [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
32 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
33 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
34 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
35 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
36 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
37 | It arrived at the Chappel in November , 1990 after becoming a victim of the developers . |
38 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
39 | The occasional crank letter was invariably weeded out the moment it arrived at the sorting office at the Royal Family 's own Post Office within Buckingham Palace . |
40 | SCO claims 28% of all Unixes sold on all platforms against SunSoft 's 25% , though Open Desktop sales remain stuck at around 35% of its business instead of the 60% it envisaged at the launch of Open Desktop 2.0 this time last year . |
41 | It acted at the request of Axa Midi , which has reaffirmed its agreement to buy BAT 's subsidiary , Farmers , should Hoylake win . |
42 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
43 | It opened at the Apollo Theatre in September 1959 and was widely acclaimed . |
44 | When it opened at the Haymarket Theatre Royal in 1956 Kenneth Tynan hailed it as perhaps ‘ the finest artificial comedy to have flowed from an English ( as opposed to an Irish ) pen since the death of Congreve ’ . |
45 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
46 | The fuselage broke into three major sections when it separated at the wing leading edge and wing trailing edge and the wreckage came to a stop 625 feet short of the runway pavement . |
47 | He turned his head and saw Hrun crouched by the pit , his sword a blur as it hacked at the tentacles racing out towards him . |
48 | It finished at the end of fifty two |
49 | Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk . |
50 | It hung at the level of his chest . |
51 | It sniffed at the ground and stood , dejected , motionless . |
52 | Thus , where the user covenant permits the tenant to use the demised property for any purpose falling within a class of the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 ( SI No 1385 ) the covenant will be construed as referring to the use class as it existed at the date of the demise . |
53 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
54 | The IDA also supported the IIRS , expressing complete confidence in it and rejecting the criticism of it expressed at the meeting . |
55 | It began at the Altovar print works when a pipe carrying oils and chemicals at 180 degrees celsius leaked . |
56 | Before noon it landed at the heliport and a car was waiting to speed its passenger to London . |
57 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
58 | It hinted at the indiscrimination of death , that it was not just confined to the sick or injured . |
59 | It hit at the root of his male pride , but also at the basis of his love for her . |
60 | Slightly late in the day ( it started at the end of January 1990 ) , the BBC put on its own Sunday programme . |