Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 2 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 3 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 4 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 5 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 8 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 9 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 10 | He got into it at school , but his friends moved on . |
| 11 | ‘ I heard about it at school . ’ |
| 12 | Figure 24.4 gives an example ( drawn from trajectories on the screen of a videotape of the motion ) of how one might see the bob moving if one glanced at it at a succession of equally spaced times — although one would not expect to see just this sequence ever again . |
| 13 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 14 | We talked about it at the time ( since journos are often good sources of information for drivers ) and it was quite clear there was only one place Mario could even think of going : Ferrari . |
| 15 | So I 've done all this , I 'm quite a handyman in the house , so we talked about it at the cen at the centre here and we actually asked another guy to do it , who 's erm sixty odd and he comes in here everyday er and he was willing to start it or to run it . |
| 16 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 17 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
| 18 | Another Haute , Edmund , lost an annuity to Walter Hungerford , who petitioned for it at the end of May : an indication that the family 's gains from royal service were recognized as being available for redistribution . |
| 19 | I warned against it at the time , telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole . |
| 20 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 21 | Three days after the coup , the provisional picture which has emerged from carefully phrased official clarifications , and unofficial leaks , is that the Bush administration did not initiate the rebellion but knew about it at least two days in advance and had promised , or at least hinted at , limited support . |
| 22 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 23 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
| 24 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 25 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 26 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 27 | Somebody thought of it at an editorial conference , and Muggins here had to ring round all these celebrities to get comments . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought of it at once when you made your enquiries . |
| 29 | I am told Dickens partook of it at home . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Call Moinet ! ’ he ordered , walking completely into the room , ignoring Jenna 's blushes as she sat there in her nightie , which was n't particularly revealing but which felt like it at the moment . |