Example sentences of "[vb past] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 2 | He hefted the pistol towards the window , laid it on the sill , cocked it , put a percussion cap beneath the hammer , directed it at some sepoys trotting below , and pulled the trigger , confident that a sepoy would throw up his arms and sink to the ground . |
| 3 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 4 | She barely noticed it at all as she stood for a few seconds in front of the mirror and pulled the comb through her hair . |
| 5 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 6 | But she hated it at first . |
| 7 | I ) lay parallel to the earlier military ditches , while the other ( No.2 ) joined it at right angles , suggesting that the military plan influenced the layout . |
| 8 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 9 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 10 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 11 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 12 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 13 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 14 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 15 | Just re-opened it at twenty to six . |
| 16 | They placed it at 7,000 in early 1977 and were far from happy at the knowledge . |
| 17 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 18 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 19 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 20 | Or whether you saw it at all . |
| 21 | Whichever way her life was goin' she would never have it soft again , not as she saw it at this present moment . |
| 22 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 23 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 24 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 25 | This sense of purpose and of confinement to " legitimate " objectives is briefy conveyed in a single sentence describing events at Malmesbury : " They seized all the corn ; sold it at 5s [ 25p ] a bushel , and gave the money to the right owners . " |
| 26 | Scott Hastings followed him over two minutes later but a try by Mark Seymour levelled it at 12–12 . |
| 27 | Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction . |
| 28 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 29 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |