Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was at that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
2 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
3 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
4 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
5 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
6 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
7 | It was then that she and Madeleine saw each other : and it was at that instant that their military training served them well . |
8 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
9 | That wo n't give anything away , ’ cajoled Deana , and it was at that moment that an open-topped , low-slung dark red sports car purred to an impatient halt directly in front of the foyer 's big glass doors and the unmistakable silhouette of Tom Russell sprang with athletic grace from behind the wheel and began to stride across the cement footpath towards the entrance . |
10 | And it was at that moment , half a mile before Carrick-on-Suir , that they heard an actual clamour — of angry voices , hundreds of angry voices . |
11 | He went nuts — he went crackers , got the cane , and he was wielding it , and it was at that time that the rest of the boys decided to pile up the furniture in the corner and set fire to it , so half the classroom was burning . |
12 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
13 | But as the child could not in the very nature of things acquire rights correlative to a duty until it became by birth a living person , and as it was not until then that it could sustain injuries as a living person , it was , we think , at that stage that the duty arising out of the relationship was attached to the defendant , and it was at that stage that the defendant was , on the assumption that his act or omission in the driving of the car constituted a failure to take reasonable care , in breach of the duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to the child . |
14 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
15 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
16 | shut up , when it was at that end my head started at ? |
17 | Although I remained something of an outsider to the M.I.T. philosophy as it was at that time , I carried something of this arrogance back to England with me . |
18 | Having followed P C and P C as he was at that time through the door , I went immediately to the bedroom on the right hand side , the second bedroom . |
19 | Held , dismissing both appeals , Findlay : ( 1 ) the judge had accepted the custody officer 's evidence that the notes in the pocket book were shown to Findlay , though he was at that time incommunicado ; and Code C 12.12 in its unamended form ( which governed this case ) only applied to interviews at police stations so that it did not require the notes in the present case to be shown to him : Brezeanu & Francis [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 650 . |