Example sentences of "[vb pp] it at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You would n't have expected it at all .
2 I had expected it at some point .
3 On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ .
4 Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’
5 back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in …
6 At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage .
7 Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all .
8 I do n't like housework particularly — it 's just a bore , it 's so monotonous , and with a child you 've done it once and five minutes later it just does n't look as though you 've done it at all .
9 ‘ They just put a tick on it if you 've done it at all .
10 I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then .
11 I suppose it 's a satisfying thing — to know you 've done it at last and it 's all there , nice and clean .
12 CARL Fogarty has done it at last !
13 Swindon Town have done it at last , and won a league match .
14 I have n't moved it at all .
15 She wondered why he had accepted it at all .
16 And , they 've actually rated it at ten and a half thousand erm payable
17 ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line .
18 But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends .
19 Was I sure I had seen it at all ?
20 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 .
21 I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all .
22 I 've seen it at closed hand .
23 She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims .
24 We do see the problems we 've seen it at both ends the goalkeepers have when people chase a lost cause like Rozario 's just done there .
25 Your companion might not have made it at all . ’
26 It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first .
27 And they say the District Valuer 's valued it at that , and they , and they , they would be failing in their responsibility to maybe try
28 In a way , the most important word in the whole of that speech is probably ‘ nature ’ — ‘ I feel the link of nature draw me ’ because here now Adam is using the word nature as , I suppose , he would not have used it at any earlier point in the poem .
29 She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk .
30 He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’
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