Example sentences of "[to-vb] it at [noun sg] " 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 | Even Barcelona would be pushed to meet it at present . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Under these circumstances we were obliged to reach it at night , in a small open boat crewed by two very anxious and expensive local fishermen . |
| 7 | Because it was deemed to have been lost in antiquity , the finder was allowed to keep it , although happily the British Museum was able to buy it at auction . |
| 8 | Does he agree that the right way to encourage the electronics industry to export is to help it at home by tax cuts such as those announced yesterday by our right hon. Friend ? |
| 9 | Many in the art world believe these hardships have already sent the society over the edge and that opportunists are poised to loot it at discount prices . |
| 10 | Well I hope so anyway because I 'm not going to play erm international football at left back , I 'm going to play it at centre half , so hopefully erm Terry scouts will be watching me . |
| 11 | I did n't want to do it at school or at home . |
| 12 | Mrs said th , there 's too much of a confidential nature goes on in school and , I 'm not allowed to do it at school . |
| 13 | it 's best to do it at weekend |
| 14 | All the contractors have agreed to do it at cost . |
| 15 | Would I do the job this way if I was asked to do it at work ? |
| 16 | This is a deliberate training strategy that is used in the clinic and observed so that the parent learns how to do it at home . |
| 17 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 18 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 19 | You 've got to put it at chest height |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’ |
| 21 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 22 | One rather nice touch : fibre optics are built into the thermal panels behind the ice , so if you want to use it at night it will glow in the dark . |
| 23 | It 's on the theme of families and you 'll be able to use it at Pack meetings . |
| 24 | you can listen if you want , only joking , no , I do n't think I can do that , I 'm allowed to listen to it , I have to record it at home you know as well |
| 25 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |
| 26 | But we have to be careful to try to understand what steps are proper in order to keep it at bay . |
| 27 | Mr Bush 's men are trying to establish the administration 's authority : they want to be able to decide freely where the money goes and in what form ; and they want to be allowed to shift it at will from one country , and one programme , to another . |
| 28 | He articulates a view which is widely shared on the Opposition Benches , although the Labour party finds it seemly to repress it at present . |
| 29 | So you have to watch it at home ? |
| 30 | then I used to scrape it at night when we 'd finished . |