Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped abruptly at the edge of the roof , straining to balance its top-heavy body on slender back legs and egg-cup hooves . |
| 2 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 3 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 4 | Er , I think it came out at a Trial Audit and we should have a job specification , even if it 's a generic job specification for every member of staff . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 6 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 7 | She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year . |
| 8 | It was high-necked and had long tight sleeves and a straight line to the floor , where it flared out at the back into a huge swirling fishtail train . |
| 9 | It turned in at the gate and came chuntering up the track to pull up beside them . |
| 10 | It broke out at The Railway in Stert Street in Abingdon . |
| 11 | A computerised machine was implanted in his chest last November but Mrs Priestley said it packed up at the end of last month and he was taken into hospital . |
| 12 | It would oscillate through the earth and back , until eventually it settled down at the center . |
| 13 | Andrew Ferguson , 25 , of Pelham Street , Hartlepool , was fined £100 and ordered to pay compensation of £117 to the woman driver of a car which he kicked as it slowed down at a road junction . |
| 14 | At Fenella 's side , Caspar said softly , ‘ They are unable to stand , poor things , ’ and Fenella felt the pity of it hit hard at the base of her throat . |
| 15 | The tram whined and sparked as it pulled up at the fare stage near the Dennistoun Palais and Whitehill Street . |
| 16 | Corbett settled his horse as it fidgeted nervously at the rustling of some animal in the undergrowth at the side of the track . |
| 17 | During the period 80 to SOMaBP it drifted rapidly at a rate of between 100 and 180 mm a- 1 . |
| 18 | Because the thing he produced eventually , it fell over at the end of the day |
| 19 | It fell further at the end of the month to US$1.00=309 roubles . |
| 20 | He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble . |
| 21 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |
| 22 | Feeling the wagon level again , it took off at a trot . |
| 23 | It was too big a puzzle and she let it go although it gnawed away at the back of her mind . |
| 24 | The question , coming as it did unexpectedly at the end of her monologue , disconcerted me . |
| 25 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 26 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 27 | It did so at the rate of 4–7 in ( 10–18 cm ) per year until it collided with the Laurasian land mass ( North America and Eurasia , which were then joined ) . |
| 28 | Keeping the noisy engine as muted as possible , Yanto negotiated the dirt path until it terminated suddenly at the base of the sea wall . |
| 29 | But it appeared otherwise at the time . |
| 30 | Du n no , but it says , it said about at the Rice Krispies . |