Example sentences of "[v-ing] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |
| 2 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 3 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 4 | A regularly travelled long straight hill has a road sign at the bottom , now , when passing it at 50 mph , the Land Rover tops on the hill at 44 mph as opposed to 39 on two or four star fuel . |
| 5 | There 's no mathematical way of defining it at that point . |
| 6 | I do n't like me voice , I 'm not liking it at all and I think that 's what putting me off on taping it and listening to myself after , I do n't , I like , I like |
| 7 | Cos th without actually forcing it at all . |
| 8 | It is worth describing it at such length so that readers who have not read Tolkien 's ‘ minor ’ works might develop some idea of Lewis 's importance as Tolkien 's ‘ onlie begetter ’ or ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , for there can be very little doubt that it was Lewis 's friendship and encouragement which led Tolkien to write the works which made his name with the public ; just as it was Tolkien 's friendship which released in Lewis wells of creativity which had remained ( though he was so naturally fluent ) mysteriously dry . |
| 9 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 10 | It was but er the market was so low that he decided not to well I do n't think he could get a buyer actually , it 's just stood there so he he he let it out rather than have it stood there with the option for us to buy it but I say now the prices are lower he 's not keen on selling it at that price . |
| 11 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 12 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's redlining it at 6,000 , ’ he said , referring to the straining Tachometer , while firing down a bus lane in first gear at about forty . |
| 14 | It was not a book that he had packed when leaving London : he had bought it a day or two earlier in Inverness , and to Boswell , years later , he gave , not unmemorably , his reasons for buying it at all : ‘ Why , Sir , if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey , let it be a book of science . |
| 15 | Not only had they sent a tactless cable but , seeing it was 2 am in England , decided to save money by sending it at reduced rates to be delivered when the MCC office opened at 9 am . |
| 16 | Or not getting it at all . ’ |
| 17 | We are not getting it at all . |
| 18 | And especially not of aiming it at one of his friends . |
| 19 | No , he would n't , was n't having it at all |
| 20 | In New York most beach pollution comes from overloaded storm drains , while in Europe , particularly in the southern countries , many cities discharge their sewage into the sea without treating it at all . |
| 21 | Well they were doing it at eleven o'clock last night , it must of been something like that because I heard every word |
| 22 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 23 | Peer pressure is a factor , but not necessarily in a coercive way ; a teenager who is n't sure how to smoke a joint will be more worried about losing face from doing it wrong than not doing it at all . |
| 24 | We can split domestic labour 50–50 , but I 'm the one who 's going to feel defined by doing it at all . |
| 25 | Should cats be doing it at all , should any animal be made to do those sort of tricks ? |
| 26 | Every dancer has got a different job to do on the road — as if dancing were n't difficult enough — but you know what most people would say : ‘ It 's art , it 's dance , it 's Britain , you should be grateful to be doing it at all ’ . |
| 27 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 28 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 29 | A slow retrieve , occasionally stopping to allow the bait to sink back to depth , then speeding up to run the bait to the surface working the bait as a lure or wobbled bait would be , the difference is that on this occasion you could be doing it at 150 yards from the bank and an area never covered by bankside wobblers . |
| 30 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |