Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] at this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains .
2 Police declined to comment further at this stage and Mr Alec Chipstead , a chartered surveyor , was not available for questioning . ’
3 A touch of deja vu started to creep in at this point .
4 But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London .
5 ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel .
6 Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time .
7 Their first attempt , however , was foiled when they lost the centre leaf and had to walk out at this point .
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