Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done .
2 Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ .
3 There was all sorts of processes before it got to that and after it got to that stage .
4 And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage .
5 It complied with that request in the time allowed .
6 The stone flew in the air across the surface of the water , skimming as free as a bird but only because it bounced on that surface every now and then and refused to sink at the first contact .
7 I would certainly not judge a man 's ( nor woman 's ) character simply because they had a love affair , especially when it occurred before that person became leader of their party .
8 Furthermore , although the Commission put forward a proposal for a Council Recommendation on banning smoking in public places based on Article 235 , this gave rise to a Resolution of the Council and of the Ministers for Health of the Member States which , whilst it referred to that proposal in its recitals , claimed to be made ‘ having regard to the Treaty ’ .
9 It referred in that connection to paragraph 13 of the judgment in the Pesca Valentia case .
10 It referred in that connection to article 8 of the Convention of 1986 .
11 It referred in that connection to Ordre des Avocats au Barreau de Paris v. Klopp ( Case 107/83 ) [ 1984 ] E.C.R. 2971 and Commission of the European Communities v. Belgium .
12 It also stressed that the quotas constituted a derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , and it referred in that connection to the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 .
13 It came from that boy 's garden .
14 Not only was it situated centrally , but it hosted at that time an international exhibition which was considered an attraction for delegates .
15 Very often people are almost haunted by one particular experience and they think to themselves , ‘ Oh no , I could n't stand it if it happened like that again' .
16 It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight .
17 A delegation from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) , was in Singapore to try to make sure it stuck to that pledge .
18 When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc .
19 So it started in that kind of fashion really .
20 It looked like that duffel bag of yours , and it was heavy .
21 It contained at that time 23 houses .
22 There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height .
23 That did no good for the Smurfit price in Dublin , and maybe the nonchalance with which the group now treats the Square Mile reflects the hurt it felt at that piece of analysis .
24 How do you get twenty for that one when it went in that hole ?
25 Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city .
26 It never again had quite the effect it did on that day when Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain was driven from the field , and , in truth , Gambo could n't quite remember that recipe to his dying day .
27 I would like to have more information from the County , or anyone else from the table for that matter , how this figure 's going to be split , clearly P P G requires it to be split between district , and I 'd like to see it split on that basis .
28 When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed .
29 erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ?
30 Yes I did have a refriger I had , we bought a refrigerator and er a cooker and it sat in that recess there , that was our big buy when we first came , er we had a bedroom suite when we came here and we had sufficient furniture to , to erm furnish the sitting room and we had er a suite of furniture in here erm
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