Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 2 | They were good value , because they were in a style that he could wear anywhere and they were strong enough for all his walking and kept his feet from being bruised on the city pavements , for when you walk as much and as far as Boy did at that time you can hurt your feet badly . |
| 3 | All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of . |
| 4 | Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ? |
| 5 | As the law stood at that time local authorities could place limits on the number of pupils in each of its schools , and the Secretary of State said that he had no power to intervene in the Dewsbury case . |
| 6 | As Duclaud-Williams ( 1978 ) suggests , the operation of rent rebates and other principles embodied in the Act tended at that time to swing the balance further in favour of home buyers and away from the two rented sectors . |
| 7 | In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% — less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats , a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters . |
| 8 | No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] . |
| 9 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 10 | No such guide existed at that time ; but summarisation of legal matters in any comprehensive yet comprehensible form is a difficult and risky business , so that the task was not one which the writer regarded with relish . |
| 11 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 12 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 13 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 14 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 15 | We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery . |
| 16 | When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction . |