Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 2 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 3 | You know , cos I 'd got it at a P P C as well , for national conference . |
| 4 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 5 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 6 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 7 | The Bosnian Serb parliament rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan even though its leader , Radovan Karadjic , had signed it at a peace conference in Athens . |