Example sentences of "it [vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
2 | It stopped at the usual place , and a soldier in a red and gold uniform jumped down . |
3 | It came at the right time . |
4 | Before it arrived at the Bate Collection , all that was known about the William Smith harpsichord ( illus.1 ) was to be found in a brief summary in Boalch 's Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord . |
5 | When it arrived at the Bate Collection the instrument was found to be basically well cared for . |
6 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
7 | On most of the nationalisation stock ( paid to compensate former owners ) and earlier long-term borrowings they inherited at nationalisation ( much of it raised at the low interest rates of the 1930s ) they paid only 3 per cent . |
8 | It looked at the whole history of dealings between the two companies . |
9 | It stared at the good eye moving frantically in its socket . |
10 | It emerged at the far post where McGoldrick slid in to score his seventh goal of the season . |
11 | Simultaneously , it aimed at the permanent reduction of inflation rates in the EC as the means of promoting price predictability . |
12 | Ex-L.C.C. tram route 6 , which had been cut back to Tooting Broadway on 6 December 1933 , was re-extended to Mitcham on 30 May 1937 , but as the Cricket Green branch had already been lifted , it terminated at the Fair Green . |
13 | I enclose a photograph of the display as it appeared at the National Library of Scotland ; obviously the cases are not part of the touring display . |
14 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |