Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 2 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 3 | Three years after its publication , less than half of Solihull 's secondary school teachers claim to have seen the booklet , and a much smaller proportion claim to have read it all , or to recall it at all well . |
| 4 | But as the new realists and the Christian revivalists equally understood , mankind needs its shared experience of reality ; and conversation apart , it is doubtful if anything but fiction can do it as well , or do it at all . |
| 5 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 6 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 7 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 8 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 9 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 10 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 11 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 12 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 13 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 14 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 15 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 16 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 17 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 19 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 20 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 21 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 22 | And we used to stand down and leave it at that . |
| 23 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 25 | Some guy might walk past and say , ‘ Hey , you look nice today ’ , and leave it at that . |
| 26 | If you are not sure of the answers , say so , and leave it at that . |
| 27 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |
| 28 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 29 | You could take their word for it and leave it at that . |
| 30 | Do n't just look at it and think to yourself ‘ That 's a jug ’ and leave it at that . |