Example sentences of "it [vb past] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 2 | Finding nothing , it lashed at the walls and screamed in fury . |
| 3 | He turned his head and saw Hrun crouched by the pit , his sword a blur as it hacked at the tentacles racing out towards him . |
| 4 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
| 5 | It looked at the problems of the validation machinery itself , for example in conditions of the expansion of teacher education and the array of complex diversified courses which raised logistical and other problems for the CNAA . |
| 6 | But when it looked at the boys , Edwardian England was invariably moved . |
| 7 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |