Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids get it at school . |
| 2 | When flushed , chestnut wings and dangling legs separate it at once from Quail ( p. 105 ) and young Partridges ( p. 103 ) . |
| 3 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 4 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
| 5 | Not even Balanchine always survives this test , and lesser creators ignore it at their and our peril . |
| 6 | The ‘ slot and bar ’ access has been designed to allow cyclists to negotiate it at low speeds or dismounted . |
| 7 | The ‘ slot and bar ’ access has been designed to allow cyclists to negotiate it at low speeds or dismounted . |
| 8 | Nor was hegemony an inevitable or universal phenomenon , and conscious efforts to combat it at the ideological level were a necessary part of the socialist project . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Icknield Way in Hertfordshire actually consisted of at least half a dozen clearly defined and parallel lanes edged by contemporary fields , with other lanes crossing it at right angles . |
| 11 | We were half-way to the island when the pirates fired it at us . ’ |
| 12 | I 've left it with two screws holding it at the moment . |
| 13 | Can I say that we are now organising quite tightly the business of street collections , and I think if committee are minded to reduce the number of collections that we allow , we should decide that before we come to this meeting , because I think it 's very difficult in practical terms to do it at this stage , and therefore I would suggest that we do agree twenty-one , not withstanding what Graham said , we can take on board some of what he said , and maybe the month before we are asked to take this decision , we have an item on the agenda where we discuss the principle before we get down to the practicalities . |
| 14 | As Birmingham abolitionists expressed it at their celebratory public breakfast in the Town Hall on 2 August 1838 , with slaves ‘ relying on their own peaceful and persevering efforts for the removal of every vestige of oppression ’ and with ‘ the continued vigilant aid of the British people , under the blessing of Divine Providence ’ they foresaw ‘ the progressive development of the glorious results of free institutions and the reconstruction on purer and better principles of the now disorganised elements of colonial society ’ . |
| 15 | Meanwhile SunSelect continues to be skittish on any questions about WABI 's list price , packaging , availability or anything else substantive , ostensibly because of the gala rollout it has planned for May 5 at the 500-seat Great American Music Hall in San Francisco , having ditched plans to hold it at the giant Paramount Theater in Oakland , California . |
| 16 | Politicians espouse it ; government departments ignore it at their peril . |
| 17 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 18 | Tinted glass filtered the bright morning sunlight and powered swivel shutters excluded it at will . |
| 19 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 20 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
| 21 | The official census gives the figures for the number of Chinese Muslims as fifteen million but independent estimates put it at between 30 and 40 million . |
| 22 | Estimates put it at 40,000 million gallons of flood water . |
| 23 | It would not comment on the potential value of the joint venture but published reports put it at around $3,000m , adding that Cable & Wireless and Telstra would share 40% , Benpres would take another 40% , and the rest would go to smaller investors . |
| 24 | I WONDER whether Commonwealth students find it at all odd to attend an institution called ‘ Imperial College ’ . |
| 25 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 26 | This is partly because eating foods you do n't like ( and avoiding those you do ) day after day is nigh-on impossible , and partly because your personal cholesterol level is as normal and natural for you as your shoe size , so your body has various feedback mechanisms to keep it at that level . |
| 27 | But when the whole sum is due , by no intendment the acceptance of parcel can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff ; but in the case at bar it was resolved that the payment and acceptance of parcel before the day in satisfaction of the whole would be a good satisfaction in regard of circumstance of time ; for peradventure parcel of it before the day would be more beneficial to him than the whole at the day , and the value of the satisfaction is not material ; so if I am bound in £20 to pay you £10 at Westminster , and you request me to pay you £5 at the day at York , and you will accept it in full satisfaction for the whole £10 , it is a good satisfaction for the whole , for the expenses to pay it at York is sufficient satisfaction . ’ |
| 28 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |