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
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