Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 2 | It began to ring at the other end . |
| 3 | The only problem was , they were supposed to be on piece work , and it meant working at the same pace . |
| 4 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 5 | Within a year Labour was recapturing some of the political ground which it had lost at the local elections in November 1931 . |
| 6 | Prime Minister Chung , however , voiced suspicion over the North 's nuclear programme , pointing out that North Korea had not yet ratified the nuclear safeguard agreement which it had signed at the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) on Jan. 30 [ see p. 38721 ] , allowing for international inspection of its nuclear facilities . |
| 7 | The reaction of the audience was enthusiastic , and the play continued to be a popular success after it had opened at the Lyric Theatre in London on 16 September , ( Henry Sherek had again wanted to take the play first to New York , but Eliot vetoed the idea ) . |
| 8 | Then it was possible for the expert to pick out a glazed tile , though only if it had sunk at the correct angle to the river bed . |
| 9 | If the probe moves along a radius with , then For simplicity it can be imagined that the probe would have been be at rest if it had started at an infinite distance from the hole ; then the kinetic energy parameter T vanishes and the equation reduces further to where , as usual , . |
| 10 | Of particular interest here is the fact that though the play itself died out , the characters from it continued to appear at the annual feast . |