Example sentences of "it [vb past] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimated high at $500–600,000 it sold at the desk for $480,000 ( £320,000 ) , still a very strong price today for this artist . |
| 2 | The hot water had prickled pleasantly at the nameless place at the tops of my thighs when I got in ; cooler now , it lapped at the dome of my stomach . |
| 3 | It was ideal and saved people walking up the bank with heavy shopping , also it was handy for the post office ( which by the way , we have n't one on Albert Hill ) as it stopped at the end of Albert Road and was quite near to the post office on North Road and everyone welcomed that . |
| 4 | Motion was conserved in the precise form in which it occurred at the instant of its preservation . |
| 5 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 6 | It surfaced at the start of the eighteenth century in Paty 's Case ( 1704 ) 2 Ld Raym 1105 , where the fact that the officers of the House failed to make a sufficient particular return to the writ of Habeas Corpus was taken by Holt CJ ( dissenting , but prestigious ) to justify intervention by the courts . |
| 7 | Its Durkheimian origin meant that it suffered at the outset from the more general problems of Durkheim 's functionalist approach . |
| 8 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 9 | It came at the end of a month that would send most managers as mad as a March hare , with a defeat at Oldham and points dropped to Villa , Manchester City and Arsenal . |
| 10 | It came at the end of a pretty miserable week for the Seasiders after their failure to reach the first round of the Cup Winners ' Cup in Cyprus . |
| 11 | One night when there was an air raid alert on , and we were trying in vain to sleep through the usual ‘ noises off ’ , mainly the big anti-aircraft guns situated it seemed at the end of the garden , there was suddenly the most appalling crash immediately over our heads . |
| 12 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 13 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
| 14 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 15 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 16 | SCO claims 28% of all Unixes sold on all platforms against SunSoft 's 25% , though Open Desktop sales remain stuck at around 35% of its business instead of the 60% it envisaged at the launch of Open Desktop 2.0 this time last year . |
| 17 | It acted at the request of Axa Midi , which has reaffirmed its agreement to buy BAT 's subsidiary , Farmers , should Hoylake win . |
| 18 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 19 | It finished at the end of fifty two |
| 20 | It hung at the level of his chest . |
| 21 | Thus , where the user covenant permits the tenant to use the demised property for any purpose falling within a class of the Town and Country Planning ( Use Classes ) Order 1972 ( SI No 1385 ) the covenant will be construed as referring to the use class as it existed at the date of the demise . |
| 22 | It must be remembered that what is described is , almost without exception , the church as it existed at the time of writing . |
| 23 | It hinted at the indiscrimination of death , that it was not just confined to the sick or injured . |
| 24 | It hit at the root of his male pride , but also at the basis of his love for her . |
| 25 | Slightly late in the day ( it started at the end of January 1990 ) , the BBC put on its own Sunday programme . |
| 26 | It started at the end of March , it 's the first nine months , it 's the first tranche of the erm , the F M arrangement , and , and your members will be getting a report in February on that . |
| 27 | Even when he was not thinking about it , it nagged at the edge of his awareness . |
| 28 | I am afraid the cutting or the great Toxicodendron [ poison ivy ] is perished ; for it lay at the bottom of the box , where there had been wet . |
| 29 | It lay at the bottom of all things |
| 30 | She had to find her own way to the bathroom and was pleased with herself for so quickly remembering that it lay at the end of the passage . |