Example sentences of "[vb past] it at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hefted the pistol towards the window , laid it on the sill , cocked it , put a percussion cap beneath the hammer , directed it at some sepoys trotting below , and pulled the trigger , confident that a sepoy would throw up his arms and sink to the ground . |
| 2 | I ) lay parallel to the earlier military ditches , while the other ( No.2 ) joined it at right angles , suggesting that the military plan influenced the layout . |
| 3 | A more fundamental difficulty with the new examination is contained in the very principle that made it at first sight so attractive — its applicability to the full ability range . |
| 4 | Fred cheated his clients , of course ; but he never did it at this stage of a transaction . |
| 5 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 6 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 7 | We took Fujichrome , shot it at 5000 ASA and developed it at about 6400 ASA , we just pushed the shit out of it and we had no idea of what would happen . ’ |
| 8 | Some bibles say that , that they 've come to this , at the end of the day , they had n't quite , had it at that point anyway , cos they 'd approached it cos they were still alive were n't they ? |
| 9 | She drank it at one gulp . |
| 10 | While the pop princess ' disappointment at finding a wedding ring firmly on his finger seemed real enough to viewers ( and is confirmed by those who witnessed it at first hand ) , Banderas likes to believe it was all an act for the cameras . |
| 11 | During a visit to an airfield he clocked it at 95 mph . |
| 12 | The gradient of a curve is the gradient of tangent , so we can draw a tangent where you wanted it at that place . |