Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it at [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I sensed it at the funeral . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 9 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw it at the doctor 's on the board — an ’ I wrote it down after last week — I did n't know what else to do . |
| 11 | I understood it at the time . |
| 12 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 13 | I learned it at a college for foreign languages in Kaohsiung . ’ |
| 14 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
| 15 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 16 | I liked it at the time , yes . |
| 17 | No , I du n no why I said it at the dinner table yesterday really that was silly of me really . |
| 18 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 19 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 20 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 21 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 22 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 23 | ‘ You saw it at the end of winter , ’ Marc told her , switching off the engine and turning to examine her features . |
| 24 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 25 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 26 | But then if you did it at the stage before , before it gets into the Scottish Theatre Guide you can then make your dates available or you can agree your dates and you can get publicity and that at home . |
| 27 | Now you 've had the , the benefit of hindsight which would you rather go with , the structured way or the , you know , the way you did it at the |
| 28 | She denied it at the time , but soon she realized that those were his inclinations . |
| 29 | A new Hollywood was being born , but no one realized it at the time . |
| 30 | One of Leonard 's few memories of his father ( in addition to his monocle , his spats and his hair smelling of Vitalis ) is that of his reading , both privately and aloud , to him and his sister — precious moments that fired the young boy 's imagination and set him , although no one realised it at the time , in the direction of his life 's work . |