Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goes round like this and then it goes square at the back . |
| 2 | It came alive at the touch of her delectable lips , and she could feel his zealous prong swelling inside her mouth . |
| 3 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 4 | It seemed cheap at the price — five guineas for travel and a month 's board and lodging . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed odd at the time , ’ the youth went on , unconscious of his sudden undesirability . |
| 6 | mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back . |
| 7 | Few saw it like that at the time . |
| 8 | As they say , it gets tough at the top . |
| 9 | The upshot of this is that , while melting of the rocks of the oceanic plate by itself might produce rocks similar to those of the oceanic volcanoes , when it gets melted at the Benioff zone , a great deal of other material is added , from the mantle ( peridotitic ) and from the continental crust ( granitic ) . |
| 10 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
| 11 | So , I 'm thinking oh it 's hard , when I actually feel it it feels thicker at the end and it does feel better but when I 've washed it , I shall feel all hairy now all afternoon . |
| 12 | We need a kind of Marshall plan which will bring to those poor suffering countries aid such as was brought to continental Europe when it lay prostrate at the end of the second world war . |
| 13 | The paper bag slipped , she grabbed it and it tore open at the bottom , spilling its contents onto the empty teacups near Miss Angus and turning some of them over with an attention-drawing rattle . |
| 14 | But as far as that 's concerned , er I mean the , the house can be passed over to you , and would then become , er you would own the house but er unless you dispose of it , there 'd be no liability to a gain , and er of course , at that time er if your parents in it rent free at the time of their er leaving the house , then you could then dispose of that without erm erm er liability . |
| 15 | What this meant was n't certain , but it sounded good at the time . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought it sounded odd at the time ; now I know why . ’ |
| 17 | Marriage is one of the elements which leads to the formation and the maintenance of the inequality between classes and it does this at the expense of women . |
| 18 | Edwin Keith gave Bordon a handy lead with two headed goals , but a rare lapse in defence enabled Beaumont to pull one back and it remained 2–1 at the interval . |
| 19 | It stood right at the edge of the woods , in a huge garden full of trees which towered high above the roof . |
| 20 | It stops short at the Palace in the west , and the Admiralty in the north . |