Example sentences of "[vb past] at [det] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 2 | That Airtours arrived at this position is due to one of the best years any company could wish for . |
| 3 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 4 | The only one interested at that time was Thornton , so he had to stay for the moment . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the novel , the narrator records : " What Antoine needed at that time was to find someone capable of proving to him that his past was worthy of being admired , that it contained elements worthy of gratitude and friendship . " |
| 6 | The last thing I needed at that time was pity . |
| 7 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 8 | All I knew at that stage was that the girls had drowned in a sailing accident . |
| 9 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 10 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 11 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 12 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 13 | In 1839 Brigham Young , the US religious leader , visited Britain and established a mission that contributed many converts to the Mormon church in America ; among the many who emigrated at that time were Thomas and Mary Jones from Llanaber in Wales . |
| 14 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 15 | When in 1988 Deutsche Grammophon reissued on compact disc the recordings Karajan made in Berlin , Amsterdam , and Turin between 1938 and 1943 , the New York Times published an article on music-making in wartime Germany that concluded with the speculation that in none of the recordings Karajan made at this time is there any evidence that ‘ the soul was troubled ’ . |
| 16 | Another journey Chapman made at this time was to Scotland , to watch Neil Dewar of Third Lanark . |
| 17 | At Key Stage 2 , with older pupils , the enquiry can easily be pushed back to the Victorian Age , when pupils are now faced with the " problem " that all the people who lived at that time are now dead . |
| 18 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 19 | Similar letters were addressed to A and to the company , neither of whom had at that time been charged with any offence under the Act . |
| 20 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 21 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 22 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 23 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 24 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 25 | At any other time she would have recognised the bitter note of personal experience in his voice , but all she wanted at that moment was to flee before her worst fears were realised . |
| 26 | The last thing she wanted at this juncture was to be under an obligation to Wilcox . |