Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk .
2 With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing .
3 Or so it seemed at the time .
4 The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions .
5 If Britain could be described in any useful way as a society at ease with itself twenty years ago , then that was certainly not how it felt at the time .
6 Then it appeared at the end of the long straight leading into town .
7 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 .
8 Zemek was alleged to have used funds held by Polish companies abroad to buy back some of Poland 's commercial debt on the secondary market where it traded at a fraction of face value .
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