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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it at the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there .
2	Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong .
3	I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian .
4	I sensed it at the funeral .
5	Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies .
6	‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
7	‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do .
8	I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional .
9	I understood it at the time .
10	Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’
11	I liked it at the time , yes .
12	No , I du n no why I said it at the dinner table yesterday really that was silly of me really .
13	It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill .
14	‘ You saw it at the end of winter , ’ Marc told her , switching off the engine and turning to examine her features .
15	But then if you did it at the stage before , before it gets into the Scottish Theatre Guide you can then make your dates available or you can agree your dates and you can get publicity and that at home .
16	She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations .
17	That 's how we covered it at the N E C.
18	We saw it at the hospital
19	We did it at the safety meeting .
20	But we had it at the N E C for a week and it must have produced hundreds of cages on a routine daily basis .
21	The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear .
22	After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace .
23	The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority .
24	They heard it at the beginning rather than at the end .
25	So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat .
26	Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others .
27	Vince has has raised a point about er erm , informing er and consulting local people and to let local people know erm when the meetings are then local ca n't go , I 'm sure that if they really wanted people to come they 'd make it much more er , in erm with the advertising so clear that er people would be able to and also if they had it at the times when a their meeting at the times when it was mostly convenient to er , the general public .
28	He levelled it at the gunman then let his hand drop to his side .
29	Setting the blaster to low power , he directed it at the indentation , melting the rock slowly and gently .
30	Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 .