Example sentences of "[verb] it at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 2 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 3 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 4 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 5 | A smith uses a hammer very differently to most tradesmen , never holds it at the bottom of the shaft , for the resulting whip means that power is lost so they always clench the tool near the head . |
| 6 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 7 | Erm , the kit that these boys are wearing is a number of years old , and therefore we are going to need think about replacing it at the end of this season . |
| 8 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 9 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 10 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 11 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 12 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 13 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 14 | Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand . |
| 15 | The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 . |
| 16 | By April 1924 the head of every firm involved had received from Buckingham Palace a signed letter in Queen Mary 's own hand describing the Dolls ' House as ‘ the most perfect present that anyone could receive ’ , and an invitation to visit it at the Palace of Arts . |
| 17 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 18 | If you have a young family a sandpit can be popular but do n't site it at the bottom of the garden out of sight . |
| 19 | If you ca n't do it here you ca n't do it at the beginning of the second appointment , if you ca n't do it there then the chances are you 'll do it right at the end and if you have n't made the sale I guarantee you wo n't ask . |
| 20 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 21 | In case you did n't get that down , we 'll repeat it at the end of the programme . |
| 22 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 23 | and could n't clear it at the end of the quarter ? |
| 24 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 25 | Let's say an Upper School boy , doing what might turn out to be a six week long project , he will mark it at the end of every session , well not mark it but assess it — which is slightly different — and staple little bits of paper on it with comments and suggestions , and so on . |
| 26 | The cab has arrived , we can see it at the bottom of the stairs , grunting in anticipation , straining to be clutched and directed , to take us away . |
| 27 | He had fought off his anger , but Jenna could still see it at the back of his eyes . |
| 28 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 29 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |
| 30 | ’ These people are willing to do it at the beginning of the night when they 're sober ’ she says . |