Example sentences of "[verb] it at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spiral perm can cost over £100 but do n't be tempted to try it at home to save money . |
| 2 | Young described it at Warrington , Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 3 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 4 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 5 | Even Barcelona would be pushed to meet it at present . |
| 6 | There are also plans to turn his last film Hairspray into a Broadway musical , but we Brits can now enjoy it at home : Hairspray , Polyester , and Female Trouble are all out on video at £9.99 each . |
| 7 | The Mercers fixed it at £100 in 1503 ; either it was not enforced or the assessments are thoroughly unsatisfactory . |
| 8 | say it at school and somebody 'd say that and go oh ! |
| 9 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 10 | Far from hearing only half-an-hour from Michael Heseltine 's statement on the pit closures , a news network would have carried it at length . |
| 11 | Tinted glass filtered the bright morning sunlight and powered swivel shutters excluded it at will . |
| 12 | ‘ Actually , I found it at Royston . |
| 13 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 14 | Well as I 've taped that I taped it at home |
| 15 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 17 | In poetry such a transport is evoked by a pattern of words ( selected by the poet perhaps with the most intense thought and effort ) , which stabilizes it and allows me to evaluate it at leisure . |
| 18 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 19 | Children will encounter the Christian Church in the outside world , and will meet with Christianity among their contemporaries as they grow up , even if they have not met it at home . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home . |
| 21 | He admits he might have been a little too young for the job , ‘ but after Yves had done it at Dior , everyone thought a young designer was the thing and of course there was n't that much to do , a collection of 60 or 70 dresses , twice a year . ’ |
| 22 | But of course the beauty of it is you 've done it at school have n't you ? |
| 23 | And once you 've done it at school , it comes back with a bit of an effort quite quickly . |
| 24 | We 've done it at work |
| 25 | They have n't done it at home . |
| 26 | They 've done it at Cherwell . |
| 27 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 28 | Whereas the government publicly estimated the cost of meeting EC water standards at £3–4 billion , City sources put it at £22–32 billion over 11 years . |
| 29 | ‘ You can watch it at Connie 's , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 30 | Miss D'Arcy took the compliment , appreciated the censure and the mocking of Mrs Crump , and smiled the smile of the dumbly adoring at Hope , who was alerted by such a perfect response but nevertheless willing at this stage to receive it at face value . |