Example sentences of "had [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 2 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
| 3 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 4 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 5 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 6 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 7 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 8 | But he had seen it at once , when Berdichev had first shown him the Aristotle File . |
| 9 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 10 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 11 | And he , he possibly had done it at least a half a dozen times |
| 12 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 13 | But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends . |
| 14 | Gina had once owned a wedding ring , but had chucked it at him in an early quarrel before disappearing for days . |
| 15 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 16 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 17 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 18 | A few places further down the dale had got it at once , and then it began to advance further up towards us . |
| 19 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 20 | She had to give it at least one more try . |
| 21 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 22 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 23 | I bought it for £25 plus £3.10 for the tax and insurance from a taxi driver who had abandoned it at Middlesbrough station with a blown head gasket . |
| 24 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 25 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |
| 26 | And , whereas Charles had left it at that , Michael Banks 's understudy proceeded to tell the author just how much of a massacre the star was making of his play . |
| 27 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 28 | She had given Nina all her cash , and the girl had thrown it at Clive . |
| 29 | But no , she had taken it at its face value : from Ivan , of all people , who spread malice as his trade . |
| 30 | Both measures were intended to curb the 1991 budget deficit after initial projections had put it at Rbs250,000 million . |