Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , the golden eagle which I mentioned last week did not reappear in Yorkshire 's Nidderdale where it spent at least five days , but it was finally relocated . |
| 2 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 3 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 4 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 5 | The most notable early landscape was the Thomas Moran Wyoming scene featured in the Transco catalogue cover ( lot 14 est. $150–200,000 ) that brought $240,000 ( £150,000 ) after a keen telephone battle ( a price $90,000 higher than it brought at Christie 's in 1984 ) . |
| 6 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |
| 7 | Certainly no worse than it did at present . |
| 8 | But in 1834 , Weeks sold the contents of his museum and the Swan disappeared once again until it emerged at the Paris Exhibition 33 years later . |
| 9 | For the opportunity , if it existed at all , to make such a change would have occurred only in the context of a much more broadly based revolutionary movement . |
| 10 | It could be like the mysterious caller on the telephone to Mr Wallace requesting the visit to Qualtrough Avenue : you just did not know if it existed at all . |
| 11 | The sun came late in December if it came at all . |
| 12 | So we see the difficulties of defining even a recent period of earth history , and the protagonists of the varied viewpoints would probably ( if it mattered at all ) argue just as fiercely as stratigraphers over the boundaries . |
| 13 | It would sit at the foot of the sick-bed and , if it gazed at the patient , its eyes would magically absorb the malaise so the man had a renewed chance of life . |
| 14 | If it aimed at the point where the insect appeared to be , it would miss . |
| 15 | A sensitive pilot could then be so confused that he would be unable to respond logically to the situation , particularly if it happened at night or in cloud . |
| 16 | I wanted to go to Chimney 's it would be nice if it rained at Chimney 's cos there , we could go in the pond . |
| 17 | Edward VI 's Bill of 1547 encountered a great deal of opposition throughout English society not only because it concerned the chantries but also because it struck at the system of confraternities on which much of medieval life was based . |
| 18 | Thirty I think because it started at thirty when we pressed and went down |
| 19 | Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams . |
| 20 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 21 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |
| 22 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 23 | At the same time , however , anyone attending the play after it opened at London 's Court Theatre in 1906 could hardly fail to learn a fair amount about the young discipline of bacteriology and about attempts to treat illnesses by immunotherapy . |
| 24 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 25 | The militaria section included an interesting group of 10th Hussar material among which was an early sabretache ; this lot attracted brisk bidding before it sold at £1,200 . |
| 26 | Before it arrived at the Bate Collection , all that was known about the William Smith harpsichord ( illus.1 ) was to be found in a brief summary in Boalch 's Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord . |
| 27 | Even in that bitter weather the plant was beginning to blossom and , when it bloomed at Christmas , the abbot as was customary would send a cutting to the King . |
| 28 | An almost identical Bill was introduced as a private member 's Bill in the 1973–74 session and successfully completed its passage through the House of Lords , when it fell at its Second Reading in the House of Commons on the dissolution of Parliament . |
| 29 | When it looked at Forte 's accounts earlier this year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , March , pp 11 and 22 ) , it accepted Forte 's non-depreciation of properties , but more recently it did not accept the same accounting treatment from SEP ( see this issue , p 13 ) . |
| 30 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |