Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 2 | I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me . |
| 3 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |
| 4 | It stopped abruptly at the edge of the roof , straining to balance its top-heavy body on slender back legs and egg-cup hooves . |
| 5 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 6 | It was a happy phrase which made people feel better , and it caught on at once ; and it has remained as a convenient label to cover the series of domestic reforms which the Roosevelt administration introduced between 1933 and 1938 . |
| 7 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 8 | Its green eyes caught light for a moment as it peered up at Doyle , then it had raced away into the night , a sleek , dark shape , perturbed by the presence of furtive human life on its territory . |
| 9 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 10 | Bracing his body against it , he battered forwards , with his head down , and it ate away at his strength . |
| 11 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 12 | It lashed out at its non-existent attacker , groping through the plaster-dust with encrusted , mutated talons . |
| 13 | What 's more , he had also learned that he must ignore the first playing of the tune , and wait 15 minutes until it played again at the end of the programme — the dog would look up quizzically at the sound of the familiar music but stay still , apparently too smart to respond to an obvious false alarm . |
| 14 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 15 | It came up at him like a smack across the chops from a hand wet with soapy water . |
| 16 | Milwall have the lead that 's the important thing here it came over at the far side of the penalty area , had got up for it Ray and the Kennedy there was also a Middlesbrough foot in there . |
| 17 | It came open at once , and she leaned in , trying to disentangle the unconscious woman from her seatbelt . |
| 18 | It came off at one stage . |
| 19 | The Winter had been seriously costed , and it came out at twelve thousand million francs ‘ at the most ’ . |
| 20 | But you ran right out and it came out at erm , opposite Harwich . |
| 21 | Er , I think it came out at a Trial Audit and we should have a job specification , even if it 's a generic job specification for every member of staff . |
| 22 | and it came roughly at time . |
| 23 | ‘ It seemed so at the time to myself , ’ admitted Edward ruefully . |
| 24 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 25 | It happened twice at Bourn to my knowledge — once the fighter was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and the other time the rear gunner in the Lancaster was killed . |
| 26 | It happened late at night as she returned from an evening with friends . |
| 27 | By November 17 Sugar was ready for collection and it arrived back at Waddington to re-join 467 Squadron on December 3 , returning to a warm welcome by the Squadron personnel . |
| 28 | In addition , the strategic-line concept presupposed the availability of the Syrian line with which it linked up at the K3 pump station . |
| 29 | She was silent a moment , thinking of Oreste and her journey to England and the future of her family and how it rested largely at the moment on Mr Landor 's £30 a year . |
| 30 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |