Example sentences of "[vb past] it at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 2 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 3 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 4 | She adjusted it at a still more ludicrous angle in the mirror . |
| 5 | I mean , alright , we know you 're handling large lumps of money , but when you think of it , if you , if you , borrowed it at a different rate , you know , same rate as you could do finance , 'cos which I think the government could do it and make a profit at it . |
| 6 | Instead of bowling the ball , which bore a small silver shield , Mr Cottle threw it at a low-flying swan . |
| 7 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 8 | Quiss stumbled out of his seat , almost falling , scooped a flat piece of slate from the floor and threw it at the red crow , which screamed and jumped out of the way , spreading its wings and dropping away , flying into the cold clear space below the balcony , its final call echoing briefly , like laughter . |
| 9 | Georgina picked up a letter from her desk , screwed it up and threw it at the waste-paper basket . |
| 10 | Somehow she managed to keep her self-control , opened it at the right page and began reading it slowly , as though she had never seen it before , although she knew every word by heart — because it was written from the heart . |
| 11 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 12 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 13 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 14 | He knew that after shooting the second eight foot fall we would be free-falling thirty-feet onto a sloping rock shelf covered with a six inch sheet of tonnes and tonnes of the River Tees rushing over it every second ; hopefully ( if we hit it at the correct angle ) we would follow this shoot a further twenty five feet into the plunge pool at the bottom of the fall . |
| 15 | He pointed up the fairway and said : ‘ Just hit it at the wee stone marker . ’ |
| 16 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 17 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 18 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 19 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 20 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 21 | The question was asked : we know that he is a sound and effective Prime Minister ; but is he also a leader who can save the Conservative Party from the fate that undoubtedly awaited it at a general election had Mrs Thatcher remained in office ? |
| 22 | As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world . |
| 23 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 24 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
| 25 | He also fitted it at the top end of the door . |
| 26 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 27 | Harriet had picked up one and tilting back her head , drained it at a single gulp . |
| 28 | ‘ Listen , friend , ’ the Campbell produced a pistol and pointed it at the tall boy , ‘ do you see this ? ’ |
| 29 | The assistant then ushered them through the doorway behind the counter , removed a sonic transmitter from his pocket and pointed it at the empty bookcase against the opposite wall . |
| 30 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |