Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at that [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Theodora got in exactly at nine every day and punctiliously greeted whoever of the clergy were in at that hour . |
| 2 | His most effective performance — except that there were not at that stage a great many people who were able to listen — was his broadcast . |
| 3 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |
| 4 | Great Britain and Germany were only alike in one respect ; they were both at that time contented powers . |
| 5 | So can you think of any er brochures or any companies which were around at that time to take advantage ? |
| 6 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 7 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 8 | I replied , describing the state it was in at that time , and what I hoped to do with it . |
| 9 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 10 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 11 | But I did have the chance of an exhibition , and it was just at that time , and I was working hard , and she — she , well , I suppose she was a distraction . ’ |
| 12 | It was just at that moment that Kirsty stirred . |
| 13 | The level of their investment was not at that stage important . |
| 14 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
| 15 | The reason was that it was not at that time ascertained that those materials were definitely to be used . |
| 16 | At Paddy End ( it was still at that time known as Paddies End ) , Barratt considered it sufficient to set pitches to gangs of men in the existing old workings . |
| 17 | Customs revenue stood at c. £40,000 per annum in 1509 ; in the last years of Henry VIII 's reign it was still at that figure ; by 1550/51 it had fallen to £26,000 . |
| 18 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 19 | Er the company was also at that time , looking to expand anyway into Europe . |
| 20 | It was really at that point that the industrial factory was born . |
| 21 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 22 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 23 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 24 | Now erm for some reason or other we were responsible for the accredited Poultry Breeding Station Scheme which was erm initiated by the Department of Education or the Ministry of Education as it was then at that stage . |
| 25 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 26 | This future leader of the Scottish Reformation was actually at that stage far more interested in England , where he had found a haven under the Protestant Edward VI . |