Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 9 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 10 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 11 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 12 | And we used to stand down and leave it at that . |
| 13 | But one can not just say that the tau neutrino is heavy and leave it at that . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 15 | Some guy might walk past and say , ‘ Hey , you look nice today ’ , and leave it at that . |
| 16 | If you are not sure of the answers , say so , and leave it at that . |
| 17 | Some find it simpler to say that Jesus was human and leave it at that . |
| 18 | Unlike Sam , or even me for that matter , he could admire a girl from afar , and leave it at that . |
| 19 | You could take their word for it and leave it at that . |
| 20 | Do n't just look at it and think to yourself ‘ That 's a jug ’ and leave it at that . |
| 21 | I 'd rather not talk to the guests much beforehand simply because I find it works better just to say hello , and thanks for coming , and leave it at that . |
| 22 | Anyway , Michael said that if he had one he 'd settle for peeling off the Carlsson stickers and the other red flashes down the sides and leave it at that . |
| 23 | and leave it at that . |
| 24 | When you 're a child they say , ‘ You know you should n't do that ’ , and they give you a bloody good rollicking and leave it at that — they try to terrify you . |
| 25 | Let's just say it seems a bit questionable and leave it at that . ’ |
| 26 | Call me old-fashioned , but I think a lot of American actors just do a sort of swagger and leave it at that . |
| 27 | Did he write col basso in the score and leave it at that ? |
| 28 | But we can simply say ‘ hello ’ , and leave it at that . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to pry into your affairs , but you did ring me and you ca n't just say you 're going away and leave it at that . ’ |
| 30 | This suggestion , that stylistics should characterize comparatively the language or style of texts and leave it at that , would seem to constitute a sort of minimal claim for the relevance of linguistics to the study of literature . |