Example sentences of "[vb past] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young described it at Warrington , Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 2 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 3 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 4 | The Mercers fixed it at £100 in 1503 ; either it was not enforced or the assessments are thoroughly unsatisfactory . |
| 5 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 6 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 7 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 8 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 9 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 10 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 11 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 12 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 13 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 14 | Tinted glass filtered the bright morning sunlight and powered swivel shutters excluded it at will . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 17 | ‘ Actually , I found it at Royston . |
| 18 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 19 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 20 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 21 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 22 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 23 | The technology was introduced in the US in the 1970s , replacing toxic SO2 , and Norway 's Norsk Hydro installed it at is Porsgrunn magnesium plant in 1978 . |
| 24 | Preston identified it at once . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 27 | He seized the hall in his teeth , brought it back to his mistress , dropped it at her feet and waited expectantly . |
| 28 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 29 | In the 1930s Lord Aberconway bought the Mill 's Music House , dismantled and reconstructed it at Bodnant in North Wales . |
| 30 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |