Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone rang at that moment ; Rachel answered it and before David had time to leave the room she said , ‘ There 's been an accident in the canteen — a boiler has blown up and two of the staff have been scalded . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Any love she had for her husband disappeared at that moment . |
| 8 | The latticework door at the edge of the veranda opened at that moment and she hurried towards him , not troubling to disguise her pleasure at his arrival . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The prosecution said at that stage there was a lot of shouting an people survged into the hallway causing Mr Johnson to be pushed to the foot of the stairs . |
| 11 | The current acceleration delay is compared to the deceleration delay ( in Cation DECEND-COUNT ) which would be used if deceleration began at that position . |
| 12 | At this point the coral was extremely stressed , in fact large parts of this colony died at that time . |
| 13 | A court equerry appeared at that point at the prince 's elbow . |
| 14 | To Rachel 's relief the community nurse emerged at that moment from Jennifer 's bedroom and the conversation switched from David Markham , and for the rest of the day neither he nor Conway House was mentioned again . |
| 15 | 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 . |