Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occasional crank letter was invariably weeded out the moment it arrived at the sorting office at the Royal Family 's own Post Office within Buckingham Palace . |
| 2 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 3 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 4 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 5 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 6 | Consequently , by the time the stone reaches the surface of the earth the tower will have moved around from the position it occupied at the beginning of the stone 's downward journey . |
| 7 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 8 | It would appear from the licensing authorities in fact it expired at the end of May . |
| 9 | Before noon it landed at the heliport and a car was waiting to speed its passenger to London . |