Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 2 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 3 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 4 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 5 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 6 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 7 | Its nail was a rose thorn ; she allowed it to scratch at her skin , making a faint red mark . |
| 8 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 9 | In his book , Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , published in 1724 , the English author Daniel Defoe wrote of having seen the horn and heard it sounded at Coilsfield House ( later rebuilt and named Montgomerie House ) to call the servants to their duties . |
| 10 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 11 | The difficulty with this anemone is that once established it reproduces at a tremendous rate and literally swamps the aquarium with large numbers of offspring . |
| 12 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 13 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 14 | She saw it lying at her feet , half out of the opened envelope . |
| 15 | Ratagan and Luib took first watch , whilst the rest lay and listened to the wind , felt it tugging at the tarpaulin . |
| 16 | Clear sunny day followed upon clear sunny day , and when rain fell it fell at night to scent the dawn with the evocative fragrances of damp lavender and box . |
| 17 | I thought it finished at North , er North Cheams . |
| 18 | We asked it to look at its promotion material again . |
| 19 | I mean look at Colin Jane , he got it made at , at |
| 20 | And they got it done at the Registry , very quiet . |
| 21 | And by what method of assessment ( ask the critics ) did it arrive at its figure of $90 billion for a twenty-year programme ? |
| 22 | Why did it bother at all ? |
| 23 | The question becomes ; why did it take so long , not why did it happen at all . |
| 24 | How , if this were a complete picture of the League 's activities , did it survive at all ? |
| 25 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 26 | He designed Horbury 's elegant Parish Church of St Peter and St Leonard , with its distinctive six-stage tower and had it built at a cost to himself of £8,000 in 1790–1794 . ’ |
| 27 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 28 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |