Example sentences of "[verb] it at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In some West Indian islands a yacht arriving without one will be confronted with a customs officer producing a rolled-up flag from his pocket and offering to sell it at an inflated price in an atmosphere of thinly disguised pressure . |
| 32 | informal rejection or acceptance of the planning proposal , without expressing it at a formal level |
| 33 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 34 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 35 | I mean , alright , we know you 're handling large lumps of money , but when you think of it , if you , if you , borrowed it at a different rate , you know , same rate as you could do finance , 'cos which I think the government could do it and make a profit at it . |
| 36 | This is achieved by holding down the fire button until the meter below the energy bar reaches maximum , then releasing it at the right moment . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Instead of bowling the ball , which bore a small silver shield , Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan . |
| 39 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 40 | Quiss stumbled out of his seat , almost falling , scooped a flat piece of slate from the floor and threw it at the red crow , which screamed and jumped out of the way , spreading its wings and dropping away , flying into the cold clear space below the balcony , its final call echoing briefly , like laughter . |
| 41 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 42 | A qualified instructor will demonstrate how to use equipment properly , how to get the best from your body and enjoy it at the same time . |
| 43 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 44 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 45 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 46 | Signed Danish is not Danish , when you can not hear/distinguish the words — but another type of sign language , which has the primary advantage that hearing people can use it at the same time as they use spoken language , and the secondary advantage is that some — and only some — rules applying to the spoken language are conveyed to the deaf child . |
| 47 | All she might do is offer to do it at a lower rate , in which case , |
| 48 | Muscles yes , you 've got to er if you 're going to build power into muscles you 've got to , you 've got to give the load to those particular muscles and you 've got to do it at the right load . |
| 49 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 50 | If the material is being used on a table or flat surface , it means that in order to use it at a close distance from the eye , the head is bent low over the book in order to try to discriminate the print . |
| 51 | I do n't see how that you can possible reduce the number of deaths within the county , or even maintain it at the same level . |
| 52 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 53 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
| 54 | Next Computer Inc is going try to stage a NeXTWorld Expo without leaning on Uniforum by holding it at the same time like it did last year . |
| 55 | Of course er they have about erm well I 'm not sure , about twenty eight or thirty thousand gallons of diesel stocked up there , and of course in them buying it in bulk like that they get it at a cheaper rate . |
| 56 | she goes to part-time so they get it at a reduced rate . |
| 57 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 58 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 59 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 60 | Brenda Campbell says to ride a 100 miles on a horse is quite something in itself but to ride it at a fast pace and be able to get off is semothing else and it 's the best thing you can do with a horse |