Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CARL Fogarty has done it at last ! |
| 2 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I should have done it at first ; I could have paid it then . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Your companion might not have made it at all . ’ |
| 10 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd have bought it at any cost . ’ |
| 13 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most audacious thing about this exhibition is that the British Museum should have countenanced it at all . |
| 15 | I should not have discussed it at all if I had not been asked the questions . |
| 16 | Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature , some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period . |
| 17 | Now , we should have left it at that , but we were too drunk to run , whilst the clerks were sober and quick-witted . |
| 18 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 19 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ They just put a tick on it if you 've done it at all . |
| 24 | I suppose it 's a satisfying thing — to know you 've done it at last and it 's all there , nice and clean . |
| 25 | I 've seen it at closed hand . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 30 | But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends . |