Example sentences of "[verb] it at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’
32 Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section .
33 A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried .
34 A smith uses a hammer very differently to most tradesmen , never holds it at the bottom of the shaft , for the resulting whip means that power is lost so they always clench the tool near the head .
35 Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers .
36 If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority .
37 Erm , the kit that these boys are wearing is a number of years old , and therefore we are going to need think about replacing it at the end of this season .
38 Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently .
39 Yet the main character says it at every opportunity — that , and ‘ silly old moi ’ .
40 Well I , I had done it at the interval .
41 Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister .
42 I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and
43 In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong .
44 So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden .
45 But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without .
46 Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack
47 And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline .
48 Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen .
49 Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand .
50 We did n't watch it at the cinema .
51 No one would travel in that manner who could help it — who had time to go leisurely over hills and between hedges , instead of through tunnels and between banks ; at least those who would , have no sense of beauty so acute that we need to consult it at the station .
52 The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 .
53 By April 1924 the head of every firm involved had received from Buckingham Palace a signed letter in Queen Mary 's own hand describing the Dolls ' House as ‘ the most perfect present that anyone could receive ’ , and an invitation to visit it at the Palace of Arts .
54 Just dump it at the door there .
55 Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’
56 You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain .
57 His first major poetry collection since 1986 ; he will present it at the Edinburgh Festival .
58 ‘ How would it be if I returned your gift so that you can give it at the door ? ’
59 Catch it at the Contact Theatre till Oct 17 ( 061 274 4400 )
60 Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind .
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