Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 2 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 3 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 4 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 5 | Consistent with her belief that the single market is the key to European prosperity and ‘ closer integration ’ as well as ‘ an example and opportunity ’ to Eastern Europe , Mrs Thatcher stressed it at the expense of Delors and the Social Charter — for which she predicted ‘ considerable difficulties ’ from many countries when detailed proposals emerged . |
| 6 | BRM scrapped it at the end of 1967 . |
| 7 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 8 | Last Sunday 200 GCSE students from Down 's School in Compton saw it at the cinema as part of their coursework . |
| 9 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 10 | Thornton rebuilt it at the foot of the castle ramparts . |
| 11 | Captain Slocum did it at the end of the nineteenth century . ’ |
| 12 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 13 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |
| 14 | ‘ My grandfather had signed his own death warrant , though only my mother knew it at the time . ’ |