Example sentences of "it [vb past] at the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It beat at the stonework and screamed about projections . |
| 2 | Finding nothing , it lashed at the walls and screamed in fury . |
| 3 | The way forward could only be through a measure of government intervention and inevitably it provoked at the time and in its later consequences , or lack of them , sharp controversy which did much to form the particular arguments reformers used to articulate their basic ideological assumptions . |
| 4 | It sniffed at the ground and stood , dejected , motionless . |
| 5 | Before noon it landed at the heliport and a car was waiting to speed its passenger to London . |
| 6 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 7 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |