Example sentences of "that [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of France 's war pilots flew in Blériots that cruised at fifty m.p.h. and took an hour and a half to climb to 6,000 feet . |
| 2 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 3 | Please make sure that EVERY class that operated at any time during 1990 is included ( even if now not running ) and give the maximum number on the roll . |
| 4 | I have no enthusiasm for returning to the sort of legislation that applied at that time . |
| 5 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 6 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 7 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 8 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
| 9 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 10 | The disease is named after a terrible industrial accident that occurred at this chemical factory at Minimata in southern Japan . |
| 11 | It was departing from this grandiose encounter that Rose at last found Auguste , his head still full of exalted plans for the humble whiting . |
| 12 | These include the mosaics from the Blackfriars site and 50-52 , St. Nicholas Street , Leicester ( pls. 1 and 5a , respectively ) ; the mosaic of room 5 , Great Witcombe ; that found at 10-18 , Eastgate Street , Gloucester ; and the fragment from Locke 's Timber Yard , Cirencester ( pI . |
| 13 | This confirmed an earlier decision : as a general principle , we would not try to collect only those trees that seemed at first sight to be superior . |
| 14 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 15 | When you 'd done with that , went across to another chappie that came at nine o'clock , selling clothes , used to put his lines up on his stall , he had lines across his stall and for that you got tuppence or threepence , depending on his mood and by then it would be ten o'clock so you 'd go to one or two more and collect them jugs up and fetch them tea . |
| 16 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
| 17 | And that happened at 23 with an actress who happened to take me under her wing , so to speak . |
| 18 | He sat , contemplating the few lights that showed at this hour . |
| 19 | It was as if Chapman were a captain trying to keep afloat on a treacherous sea in a small boat that threatened at any moment to spring a leak . |
| 20 | One of the reasons for believing that cross-species extrapolation is possible at all is that all living animals have evolved from common ancestors that existed at some time in the distant past . |
| 21 | For many years , old time Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Young did work there , cutting across the divide with a brand of comedy that hit at both sides . |
| 22 | Her carriage was graceful , her movements quick and deft ; there was animation in her face and a slight catch in her voice that hinted at suppressed laughter . |
| 23 | We 've got a rota system and that started at four this morning and is now full for the rest of the day , so there will be a strong presence around the building all day long . |
| 24 | THE Bank of England took immediate advantage of surging demand for gilt-edged securities yesterday by raising £3 billion in an unprecedented exercise that started at 2.30 am . |
| 25 | It was me , my survival , that mattered at first … ’ |
| 26 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |
| 27 | Today I have with me Mrs. Julia Knight and Dr. Michael Eraut , who , together with Tony Becher , have recently completed a study that looked at parental involvement in primary schools . |
| 28 | In essence behind the austere language is the fact that Epictetus had a philosophy and system that looked at all events from a higher viewpoint . |
| 29 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 30 | ( We do n't know of many businesses that shut at 3.30 pm . ) |