Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] it at " in BNC.
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1 | One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks . |
2 | Tuesdays and Thursdays we though were good days so leave it at them . |
3 | ‘ We call it that because the body only produces it at night , ’ says pioneering researcher Dr Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Sciences Uni-versity in America . |
4 | Exactly and if you do n't pay it , and there are a few silly old so and sos not paying it at the moment , I mean the rest of us have had to pa |
5 | Here the general principle is that those who receive the largest amount of money overall receive it at the least frequent intervals and rank highest in the hierarchy of power . |
6 | She had a terrible urge just to chuck it at Evelyn 's feet and run away , but she knew if she did that there was a chance she might burst into tears . |
7 | His 19th C. biographer Charles Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures ; and the constant flow of visitors to his annual exhibitions in Ambleside and Keswick must have been responsible for carrying his work all over Britain . |
8 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
9 | In those days before altimeters , height could be deduced , given the availability of a barometer , by the simple process of recording the mercury column before take-off then reading it at intervals during the flight . |
10 | He just sits g , he , he just , you know , it 's , it 's a waste Dave just sees it at because it 's different if they were hard up |
11 | This may seem the predictable conclusion to a scenario involving , as unions and Opposition politicians indeed presented it at the start , the injection of a ‘ private sector hatchet man ’ at the top of a highly sensitive public sector organisation . |