Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 2 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
| 3 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 4 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 5 | I sensed it at the funeral . |
| 6 | Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 9 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 10 | I understood it at the time . |
| 11 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 12 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
| 13 | No , I du n no why I said it at the dinner table yesterday really that was silly of me really . |
| 14 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 15 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 16 | ‘ You saw it at the end of winter , ’ Marc told her , switching off the engine and turning to examine her features . |
| 17 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 18 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 19 | But then if you did it at the stage before , before it gets into the Scottish Theatre Guide you can then make your dates available or you can agree your dates and you can get publicity and that at home . |
| 20 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 21 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
| 22 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |
| 23 | That 's how we covered it at the N E C. |
| 24 | We saw it at the hospital |
| 25 | We did it at the safety meeting . |
| 26 | But we had it at the N E C for a week and it must have produced hundreds of cages on a routine daily basis . |
| 27 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 28 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 29 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 30 | They heard it at the beginning rather than at the end . |