Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment . |
| 2 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 3 | It declared itself at every step . |
| 4 | It showed itself at the turn of the century in a rash of gang fights , stabbings and street robberies , and in some parts of London there were excited rumours of youthful gangs armed with guns . |
| 5 | No ulterior motive lurks behind it , but it keeps you at a distance . |
| 6 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 7 | The flute adds brightness to oboe , clarinet , bassoon , and horn when it doubles them at the octave . |
| 8 | It puts them at a disadvantage . |
| 9 | ‘ It puts us at a great disadvantage playing at Selhurst Park . |
| 10 | It struck me at the time that there was something rather apt about such a pedestrian people developing such a pedestrian means of covert assassination — ’ He broke off to laugh at his own pun . |
| 11 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
| 12 | Three feet , it jumped it at the moment , but when the |
| 13 | ‘ Because ‘ e 's my mate , and it annoyed me at the time to see ‘ im get ahead of me . ’ |