Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 2 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ My grandfather had signed his own death warrant , though only my mother knew it at the time . ’ |