Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 6 | Scott Hastings followed him over two minutes later but a try by Mark Seymour levelled it at 12–12 . |
| 7 | Newman left it at that . |
| 8 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 9 | The gentleman here in the front had it at twenty four . |