Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 2 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
| 3 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |
| 4 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |
| 5 | Before it arrived at the Bate Collection , all that was known about the William Smith harpsichord ( illus.1 ) was to be found in a brief summary in Boalch 's Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord . |
| 6 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 7 | When it arrived at the Bate Collection the instrument was found to be basically well cared for . |
| 8 | Rain swilled and foamed in its open mouth as it looked at the churning black clouds and the eruptions of fractured lightning . |
| 9 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 10 | It chewed the bloody snow , gulped the entrails and the gore , growled in its throat as it worked at the tough tissues . |
| 11 | I enclose a photograph of the display as it appeared at the National Library of Scotland ; obviously the cases are not part of the touring display . |