Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recession , which had proved deeper and longer than predicted , made Bush 's own re-election less certain than it seemed at mid-year . |
| 2 | Certainly no worse than it did at present . |
| 3 | A sensitive pilot could then be so confused that he would be unable to respond logically to the situation , particularly if it happened at night or in cloud . |
| 4 | I wanted to go to Chimney 's it would be nice if it rained at Chimney 's cos there , we could go in the pond . |
| 5 | But it has taken £69 million at the US box office since it opened at Christmas — all of which will delight Great Ormond Street Hospital , to which J M Barrie gave the rights of Peter Pan . |
| 6 | Even in that bitter weather the plant was beginning to blossom and , when it bloomed at Christmas , the abbot as was customary would send a cutting to the King . |
| 7 | When it looked at Forte 's accounts earlier this year ( see ACCOUNTANCY , March , pp 11 and 22 ) , it accepted Forte 's non-depreciation of properties , but more recently it did not accept the same accounting treatment from SEP ( see this issue , p 13 ) . |
| 8 | President F. W. de Klerk announced on June 7 that the nationwide state of emergency , renewed annually since its imposition in June 1986 [ see p. 34663 ] , would not be renewed when it expired at midnight on June 8 . |
| 9 | In an unexpected announcement on July 18 , the Minister of Home Affairs , Moven Mahachi , said that the state of emergency , first imposed under the Ian Smith regime in 1965 [ see p. 21092 ] , would be allowed to lapse when it expired at midnight on July 25 . |
| 10 | However , Livings was not in the USA to see Dustin and a cast which included Dana Elcar , Elizabeth Wilson ( who would play Dustin 's mother in The Graduate ) and Carl Gabler when it opened at Circle-In-The-Square at Bleeker Street on 16 October 1966 . |
| 11 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 12 | Serbian delegates were in Istanbul discussing the implementation of the Convention when British , French and Russian ships blasted the Turkish fleet out of the water as it lay at anchor in the enclosed natural harbour at Navarino ( Pylos ) in the southern Morea on 20 October 1827 . |