Example sentences of "it [vb past] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin .
2 I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage .
3 It seemed to work at the time .
4 Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots .
5 It began to ring at the other end .
6 And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time
7 Of particular interest here is the fact that though the play itself died out , the characters from it continued to appear at the annual feast .
8 But it continued to trade at a loss and in November 1987 the Society implemented one of PW 's original recommendations by calling in its loan .
9 Following a meeting in early August between Sarney , Ferreira da Nóbrega and John Reed , chairman and chief executive of the US Citibank ( which as Brazil 's largest creditor was owed some $4,000 million ) , Ferreira da Nóbrega confirmed the government 's intention to continue to make the payment of debt interest dependent on the state of reserves , which it wanted to keep at a " safe " level of at least $6,000 million .
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