Example sentences of "it at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like most major private-sector companies ICI has facilities reserved for it at many of the events that dominate the social calendar , such as Glyndebourne , Ascot and Wimbledon . |
| 2 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 3 | Should I part with it at such a price , the weavers would rise upon the very shop . |
| 4 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 5 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 6 | so , erm I mean think we 're in their hands and that 's why I was a bit apprehensive about doing publicity for it at such an early stage because I like to see i 's dotted and t 's crossed er but however I 'll chase them up again in the next few days |
| 7 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |
| 8 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 9 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 10 | ‘ 1912 and nothing wrong with it at all . ’ |
| 11 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 12 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 13 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
| 14 | ‘ There will be many people who wo n't like it , wo n't like it at all , and will walk out . |
| 15 | I am interested in an aspect of it which exists , it at all , in terms of that contradiction — of a parodic critique of the essence of sensibility as conventionally understood . |
| 16 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 17 | I do n't understand it at all . ’ |
| 18 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 19 | But it is a part which gives me so much pain that sometimes I ca n't bear it — ca n't bear it at all . ’ |
| 20 | We may do it badly , but the beauty is that we do it at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Either you support the programme or you amend it , which means you do not support it at all , ’ he said . |
| 22 | His wife gave him a long level look with no liking in it at all , and Penelope Huntley watched , fascinated . |
| 23 | I do n't like the sound of it at all . |
| 24 | It was a clear , carrying command with no anxiety in it at all , and McLeish identified himself promptly . |
| 25 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 26 | But the united nation they had in mind , when they thought hard about it at all , was probably not what they have been landed with . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 28 | She could n't remember it at all . |
| 29 | For Chambers , his witness of doubtful character , he found this Nixonian endorsement : ‘ Is it not better to tell the whole truth in the end than to refuse , as Hiss did , to tell it at all ? ’ |
| 30 | Gloxinias do n't seem to like it at all , but that 's been my only failure . |