Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 2 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 3 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 4 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 5 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 6 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 7 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 8 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 9 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 10 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 11 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 16 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 21 | If the pool is to be made with a liner there is no difficulty , for all that need be done , is order the liner larger than needed for the pool and incorporate it at the edge as if it were a spreading shallow pool about 30 cm ( 1 ft ) deep ( Fig 14 ) . |
| 22 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 23 | John found a torch and shone it at the engine cowling . |
| 24 | Then Nour turned and saw us , and he leapt from his chair and took a cup of coffee ready-poured and threw it at the cat , who was near my foot , so that my foot was covered in coffee and the cat fled . |
| 25 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 26 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 27 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |
| 28 | He tore it off and threw it at the wastepaper basket . |
| 29 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 30 | Press the nozzle just before you aim it at the surface , and release it at the end of each stroke . |