Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun sg] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She snatched at the memory but it was too obscure . |
| 2 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 3 | Labour MPs shouted at the end that it was an affront to democracy . |
| 4 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 5 | ‘ I fired at the car because it was going into the rest of my team , endangering their lives . ’ |
| 6 | Ruth and Rosie arrived at the pub as it was closing for the afternoon . |
| 7 | Ian Hollingsbee worked at the hospital before it closed 4 years ago . |
| 8 | If the Thamesdown one did n't , er , the officers for their own reasons have separated out this particular er , activity , erm , and I felt at the time that it was unreasonable to give a hundred percent funding to er , most C A B's but not to one . |
| 9 | She pulled her dress up over her face and looked at the sun as it washed into the cotton . |
| 10 | Rima looked at the sun as it hung above the mountain tops . |
| 11 | I looked at the clock and it was 10.40 . |
| 12 | I must say I thought at the time that it was a pretty rough night to choose for a sentimental journey … |
| 13 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 14 | He despised her looks now , so he scoffed at the idea that it could be for sex . |
| 15 | The artists with whom his gallery was closely involved are Andy Goldsworthy , Hamish Fulton , Roger Ackling and Ian Hamilton Finlay , whose Wild Hawthorne Press material he presented at the Fruitmarket when it briefly reopened for last year 's Edinburgh Festival . |
| 16 | I know I said at the beginning that it could help save lives , am I er overstating the mark there ? |
| 17 | Scott and James McCalman said at the time that it was a stone used for making charcoal after the following fashion . |
| 18 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 19 | I said at the time that it was rather important from the point of view of the economy that we should not have wage increases which we could not afford . |
| 20 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 21 | I wondered at the time because it was professional jealousy after all , I suppose . ’ |