Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap .
2 Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted .
3 It came off at one stage .
4 The Winter had been seriously costed , and it came out at twelve thousand million francs ‘ at the most ’ .
5 so it just shows you , it started off at one pound twenty on the meter that was
6 It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’
7 That stretched to 13 by the time it rolled in at 11.47 to loudspeaker apologies reporting technical problems at Peterborough .
8 But it did not at all rule out the possibility of these laws being enunciated by an enlightened monarch .
9 He was a senior , dedicated member , and it did n't at first appear that he had committed any atrocities , but we later found out that he was responsible for denouncing people who had anti-Fascist sympathies , and that it was because of him that we had been taken to Tabiano .
10 It 's been another hard day for the pound , it closed down at one dollar , forty-three and down at two marks , thirty-six .
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