Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when it " just happens " , spontaneously and romantically , they and their girlfriends hope they do n't get pregnant , or they do n't think about it at all . |
| 2 | It 's not something just to be pushed to one side , and , ‘ Oh , yes , he 's coming at eleven o'clock , so I 'll think about it at five to eleven . ’ |
| 3 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 4 | If she was going to quarrel about it at all she would have to do it seriously . |
| 5 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 6 | The challenge drove him to a healthy distraction , and he was still occupied with it at three thirty in the morning , when the telephone rang . |
| 7 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
| 8 | Anyway I wo n't say any more because I 'll other people will eventually go but Hugh Berger is a gentleman who owns it or who lives in it at this time |
| 9 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
| 10 | I do n't object to it at all . |
| 11 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 12 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 13 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 14 | They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it . |
| 15 | I had n't heard of it at all , do n't know what |
| 16 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 17 | Th that was the , the hard part , there was nothing they could do about it at all . |
| 18 | There is nothing that USL can do about it at this point , it says . |
| 19 | Men spoke of that as if it was a heroic thing , but it was Thorkel Fóstri , he found , who had done the actual killing , and his father would n't speak about it at all . |
| 20 | Anna would n't speak of it at all for some time ; later we heard about Simon 's will — he left her various things , his art library for instance ( it 's a wonderful one ) — and it gave her some kind of peace . |
| 21 | I am reminded of the famous poem , by Robert Southey , about the battle of Blenheim , when little Peterkin asks : ’ But what good came of it at last ? ’ |
| 22 | Although I do not wish to dwell on it at this stage I feel I should say something regarding my understanding of Christianity . |
| 23 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 24 | If he 'd thought about it at all , he 'd imagined that they could find the Shuttle plane and wedge the Thing on it somewhere . |
| 25 | have you thought about it at all ? |
| 26 | He had thought , insofar as he had thought about it at all , that all prisons must be akin ; that there must be stone cells , barred windows , grilles , gaolers , other prisoners close by . |
| 27 | Clegg consulted four psychologists on the feasibility of selection for technical education at eleven ( G. B. Jeffrey , Charlotte Fleming , Godfrey Thomson and Cyril Burt ) , and their advice was so clearly in support of his belief that it was not possible that he refused to select for it at all . |
| 28 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 29 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 30 | Of course I do n't really believe in it at all . ’ |