Example sentences of "[vb -s] it at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation .
2 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 .
3 Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers .
4 Yet the main character says it at every opportunity — that , and ‘ silly old moi ’ .
5 It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor .
6 The vulture selects a rock , picks it up in its beak and , standing about half to one metre away , throws it at the egg with considerable force .
7 Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit .
8 ‘ The joke evolves down the pub in Newcastle , and the lorry driver tells it at a truck-stop and within 24 hours it 's all over the country . ’
9 The island is claimed by Comoros , which officially represents it at the UN .
10 First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom .
11 The firm collects the waste in lorries and processes it at a plant in the village of Cam Brea , producing 5 tonnes of black tin per week .
12 The drifting phase of its life puts it at the mercy of all kinds of hungry animals , from other stationary filter-feeders to fish , so in order that its species shall survive , a mollusc must produce great numbers of eggs .
13 But even the refusal to talk about it , as Michel Foucault has noted , marks it as the secret and puts it at the heart of discourse .
14 a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line .
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