Example sentences of "he [vb past] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made it at 9.30pm yet heard Mr Gilbey tell Diana he was about to meet friends for dinner . |
| 2 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 3 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 4 | He levelled it at the gunman then let his hand drop to his side . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 7 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 8 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 9 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 10 | Setting the blaster to low power , he directed it at the indentation , melting the rock slowly and gently . |
| 11 | It came free and he threw it at me . |
| 12 | Just me ? today because in because it was in your place I came back from she 's got a big scratch book mum and she glued it on and came that close to me it 's about there and he threw it at me and there . |
| 13 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 14 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 15 | This summer he displayed it at air shows around the UK and in France and went to Malaga in it . |
| 16 | Horse and Jockey AC match secretary Mick Dryers had an unusual Sunday morning — he spent it at home for the first time in two years . |
| 17 | Cleverly he arranged it at night when there were no cars parked in Clifton Street , otherwise the swing of the 50-feet car would surely have reached them ! |
| 18 | Not if he arranged it at the most awkward time of the year ? a little voice rejoined . |
| 19 | He placed it at Robbie 's feet and sat , head on one side , as if saying , ‘ Well now , what about that ? ’ |
| 20 | He waved it at Maisie in a threatening manner . |
| 21 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 22 | When he came at last , he saw it at once . |
| 23 | He thought it gave him a rakish daring look , especially when he wore it at an angle with his loud checked jacket and green tie . |
| 24 | He seized it at once . |
| 25 | He felt it at his face and his fingers and his back and his arms , felt it at his buttocks and privates and thighs . |
| 26 | He whirled it at shoulder level . |
| 27 | ‘ Burdened ’ as he put it at his trial , ‘ with the intolerable knowledge of my own beastliness ! ’ |
| 28 | She blew smoke serenely as he flicked it at the wall . |
| 29 | But although he aimed it at Nicholas , it fired into the air , for the boy knocked it sideways and held it . |
| 30 | He bought it at a London auction — along with a bath used by Madonna in the film Shanghai Surprise — for his Planet Hollywood restaurant . |