Example sentences of "it [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it got to about 1 a.m. he realised how cold it got at night when you are outside . |
| 2 | When his report was submitted , it dwelt at length on the key figure of Monzer al-Kassar and his involvement with Palestinian terrorist groups , supporting Aviv 's assertion of al-Kassar 's connection with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , it 's a good thing it happened at home and not at the racecourse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It happened at night in the stable , and in the morning the Untouchable women came and dragged it outside and butchered it just in front of the house . |
| 8 | With the unification process underway ( it happened at midnight on 2nd October , 1990 ) , the anniversary of the European war 's end had special significance in Germany . |
| 9 | It happened at Christmas 1975 and the surgeon was just about to leave for a holiday with his family East . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , Livings was not in the USA to see Dustin and a cast which included Dana Elcar , Elizabeth Wilson ( who would play Dustin 's mother in The Graduate ) and Carl Gabler when it opened at Circle-In-The-Square at Bleeker Street on 16 October 1966 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I often used to read it when we were in action and , believe it or not , every time I took up the book it opened at page 92 , although I have never deliberately read that page , as far as I can remember — so I took the hint and wrote … ’ |
| 14 | I thought it finished at North , er North Cheams . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Clear sunny day followed upon clear sunny day , and when rain fell it fell at night to scent the dawn with the evocative fragrances of damp lavender and box . |
| 17 | Serbian delegates were in Istanbul discussing the implementation of the Convention when British , French and Russian ships blasted the Turkish fleet out of the water as it lay at anchor in the enclosed natural harbour at Navarino ( Pylos ) in the southern Morea on 20 October 1827 . |
| 18 | Certainly no worse than it did at present . |
| 19 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 20 | That week it nestled at No 14 in this channel 's Top Twenty . |
| 21 | Sometimes the dog went with Melanie and sometimes it stayed at home and sometimes it was busy . |
| 22 | It stood at stud at Craigie and half of its earnings were paid to William Dunlop , the sleeping partner . |
| 23 | President F. W. de Klerk announced on June 7 that the nationwide state of emergency , renewed annually since its imposition in June 1986 [ see p. 34663 ] , would not be renewed when it expired at midnight on June 8 . |
| 24 | In an unexpected announcement on July 18 , the Minister of Home Affairs , Moven Mahachi , said that the state of emergency , first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] , would be allowed to lapse when it expired at midnight on July 25 . |