Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 2 | Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task . |
| 3 | Yes yes if members had any complaints about their work I would report it up at the head office and up up at the the branch office in Park . |
| 4 | Chiswell Street is quiet and sedate nowadays but two hundred years ago it was the powerhouse for the Whitbread brewery which churned out Porter , the dark beer named after the London market porters who knocked it back at a fearsome rate early in the morning . |
| 5 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 6 | Whisper it not at the British Heart Foundation , but we knew that , as well as the salt , into that dinner had gone a dozen eggs , a couple of pints of cream , half a pound of butter , a quarter-pound of sugar and about half a pint of Calvados . |
| 7 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
| 8 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
| 9 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 10 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 11 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 12 | Croner throw it in at no extra charge ! |
| 13 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 14 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |