Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] it at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line .
2 Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’
3 Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much .
4 For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all .
5 She wondered why he had accepted it at all .
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