Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 It showed itself at the turn of the century in a rash of gang fights , stabbings and street robberies , and in some parts of London there were excited rumours of youthful gangs armed with guns .
2 Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 .
3 It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun .
4 That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament .
5 Three feet , it jumped it at the moment , but when the
6 ‘ Because ‘ e 's my mate , and it annoyed me at the time to see ‘ im get ahead of me . ’
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