Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And I suddenly realized at this stage that there was going to be something rather unexpected happening . |
2 | I just looked at this piece of paper in horror and was pounced on . |
3 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
4 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
5 | Now , bent over a box , she nearly choked at this reference to her daughters ' poverty . |
6 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
7 | However , it also seemed at this stage that science depended on uniformity and invariance . |
8 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
9 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
10 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
11 | Oil related activity in the North Sea also increased at this time , and helicopter flights to offshore sites reached record numbers in 1978 . |
12 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |
13 | Mr W. M. Haggarty of Ayr was unanimously elected Vice-Chairman in place of Mr C. Smith who also retired at this time , and Mr A. D. Lamond of Perth was unanimously elected to the Committee . |
14 | On balance they are better off being fully camouflaged at this stage , because although the blue tail may save the life of many a young lizard it also has the disadvantage of being so conspicuous that it can , to some extent , attract unwanted attention in the first place . |
15 | Base rates then remained at this level for a year , before starting to fall in October 1990 , when Britain joined the ERM . |
16 | He reached ground level unharmed and , discounting the thought of trying to retrieve his car from the courtyard , headed off towards the street most heavily trafficked at this time of night , which was Kennington Park Road . |
17 | It has been suggested that one reason for Eadwine 's preferential treatment of the Kentish kingdom was the location there of the southern archbishopric at Canterbury , and there certainly emerged at this time a clear intention to implement Pope Gregory the Great 's original plan for two archiepiscopal sees among the Anglo-Saxons . |