Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | He opened it up at the last minute , came flying over and it was a terrific shot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 5 | Although the formwork was quite heavy , we pegged it down at the four corners as a precaution . |
| 6 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 9 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 10 | The phone on the wall close to her rang and she picked it up at the second ring . |
| 11 | She picked it up at the third ring . |
| 12 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |