Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 2 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 3 | In his book , Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , published in 1724 , the English author Daniel Defoe wrote of having seen the horn and heard it sounded at Coilsfield House ( later rebuilt and named Montgomerie House ) to call the servants to their duties . |
| 4 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 5 | The earliest experiment in New Jersey suggested that the reduction in working hours produced by relatively high tax rates was small — a 0.5-per-cent reduction in hours worked by men who received a cash supplement and had it withdrawn at a 50-per-cent tax rate . |
| 6 | He designed Horbury 's elegant Parish Church of St Peter and St Leonard , with its distinctive six-stage tower and had it built at a cost to himself of £8,000 in 1790–1794 . ’ |
| 7 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 8 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |