Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It passed us at Gibraltar . |
| 2 | Still smiling from her thoughts , she placed her hands on his broad , muscular shoulders , feeling the strength of his hands lifting down her body as if it weighed nothing at all . |
| 3 | Erm I mean Martin , Martin 's very good and he 'll , you know , stop me there and , and , and go back over it and but it , it , the the was already there so it 's already got you thinking about other things and , you know , things that were completely irrelevant and it confused me at times . |
| 4 | It declared itself at every step . |
| 5 | It showed itself at the turn of the century in a rash of gang fights , stabbings and street robberies , and in some parts of London there were excited rumours of youthful gangs armed with guns . |
| 6 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 7 | Last night we had a phone call , oh it frightened me at first actually , I answered the phone |
| 8 | It alerted him at once and he took a tight grip on her arm as she swung away to leave him . |
| 9 | That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock . |
| 10 | He said this with a certain measured diffidence , as though it meant nothing at all to him , and was just a casual observation . |
| 11 | If it meant anything at all it probably meant other people thought you were a bit like them . |
| 12 | If it meant anything at all , thought Henry , it was something along the lines of We have n't got a clue . |
| 13 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 14 | I was worried because I looked small , but it put me at ease knowing everything was all right inside . |
| 15 | Not only was it unremarkable and rather battered , it did nothing at all to jog her errant memory . |
| 16 | To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends . |
| 17 | They look like rust — it fooled me at first . |
| 18 | By far the most intriguing announcement in Wales also carried a competitive element , even if it had nothing at all to do with slow bowlers . |
| 19 | It suited me at first to have you believe there was someone in my life . |
| 20 | It was dangerous because it left her at his mercy and as far as she knew he had none . |
| 21 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 22 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 23 | It impressed no-one at corporate management level . |
| 24 | Three feet , it jumped it at the moment , but when the |
| 25 | ‘ Because ‘ e 's my mate , and it annoyed me at the time to see ‘ im get ahead of me . ’ |