Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technology was introduced in the US in the 1970s , replacing toxic SO2 , and Norway 's Norsk Hydro installed it at is Porsgrunn magnesium plant in 1978 . |
| 2 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 3 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 4 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 5 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 6 | Linda loved it at Saville Garden last weekend , weekend before . . |
| 7 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 8 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 9 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 10 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 11 | Immediately , he began trying to predict Simon 's responses , to work out ways of soothing him , of flattering him , of making him laugh , anything that might defuse that aggression or at least make sure that Simon directed it at someone else . |
| 12 | In fact 12% developed it at puberty , 17% during pregnancy , 19% when they started taking the birth pill and 27% , at the onset of the menopause . |
| 13 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 14 | For Trimotor N7584 only reached $350,000 on the bidding floor but an ‘ after-auction ’ session clinched it at $650,000 . |
| 15 | The cold held it at bay despite the glow of the flames on his face . |
| 16 | The Mercers fixed it at £100 in 1503 ; either it was not enforced or the assessments are thoroughly unsatisfactory . |
| 17 | Finch lobbed it at Henry and then lay back . |
| 18 | McEllhoney was surprised , unprepared for the confrontation and Dobson sensed it at once . |
| 19 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 20 | Newley bought it at the Warton sale . |
| 21 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 22 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 23 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 24 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 25 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 26 | When I drew the attention of the Leader of the Opposition to a previous threat of this kind , made by the hon. Member for Coventry , South-East ( Mr. Nellist ) , the right hon. Gentleman withdrew it at once . |
| 27 | As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world . |
| 28 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 29 | A mule began to bray in alarm and a Myrcan struck it at once with his staff until it fell silent , blood oozing from its nose . |
| 30 | McLeish took a minute to formulate his reply , and Giles Hawick got it at once . |