Example sentences of "[prep] it at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't think much of it at first , but then something started to waft around the corridors , ’ shudders Bea . |
| 2 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 3 | She 's got the hang of it at last Chloe , you 're alright now ! |
| 4 | ‘ I was against it at first . |
| 5 | Mr Reenan , of Abingdon , Oxon , confessed : ‘ I can not deny there was a greed aspect to it at first but I regret it now . |
| 6 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 7 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 8 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 9 | Was he running for it at last ? |
| 10 | It is the things I liked about it at first , that made it immediate , that I do n't like now . |
| 11 | I was nice about it at first and said that business and pleasure do n't mix ; and that I do n't go out with married men and so on . ’ |
| 12 | Well like you say you feel nervous about it at first but once you do it , you 've got . |
| 13 | George , who was a friend of the Old Groaner for 25 years , will be talking about how Bing came to record White Christmas which became the world 's greatest hit even though Crosby was n't impressed by it at first . |