Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it at " 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 | Oh ! er look I mean it at all unless David gives me a little |
| 4 | Not that it came to me just thinking : I realized it at school . |
| 5 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 6 | When I revisited the place in 1974 , I found it at once grim and beautiful , at once an irrelevance to my present life and a painfully inevitable part of what I was , what I am , and what I always shall be . |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , I found it at Royston . |
| 8 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
| 9 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 10 | Erm , well I put it at the . |
| 11 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 12 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 13 | Can I borrow it at lunchtime |
| 14 | She says I threw it at him . |
| 15 | I read it at one sitting , and it scared me stupid . |
| 16 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
| 17 | I joined it at Donnington Bridge and walked downstream , past Iffley Lock and under the by-pass to Radley , or up to Folly Bridge and through the back-streets of Osney to Port Meadow and Godstow . |
| 18 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 19 | ‘ I got hold of a book on careers , ’ she recalls ‘ Initially I opened it at ‘ marketing ’ and got really enthusiastic . |
| 20 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
| 21 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I sensed it at the funeral . |
| 24 | Then I drive it at a brick wall . |
| 25 | So it 's just simply to er comment about the the future work that 's gon na be done by Glanmole er , the work of investigation as I understand it at the end of that first section . |
| 26 | I discuss it at some length in Chapter 6 . |
| 27 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 30 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |