Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 2 | Is it not true — as my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) pointed out — that as much public money goes to one CTC , to which parents who have not gone through the normal process will have access , as to all the other schools in the area , and that it goes there at the same rate ? |
| 3 | All of it eating away at the spiritual fabric of existence for thousands upon thousands of years . |
| 4 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 5 | Below the rear central lamp , which shone into the interior , is the curved transverse tambour ; once erroneously thought to have been a sword-case , it opened only at the left hand end , outside the carriage , and its true purpose is obscure . |
| 6 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 7 | It was bliss to feel some of the tension ease out of her , but it returned abruptly at the sharp sound of a breaking twig . |
| 8 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 9 | And the suggestion to this Committee was that it looked , that it looked further at the five hundred thousand pounds guideline that 's been set to address the apparent shortfall on community care funding , and also that you should look at further service reductions and their implications erm , of reductions of a further two hundred and fifty thousand , and those are again picked up later in the paper . |
| 10 | It does well at the lower temperature , and will take some time to adapt to the temperatures above 70°F . |
| 11 | As Westergaard and Resler say ( 1975 , p. 101 ) , ‘ sex inequality in pay reinforces class inequality : it strikes hardest at the lowest levels of the occupational hierarchy ’ . |
| 12 | It 's all the same stuff you know , we ca n't move forward unless it comes forward at the other end |