Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too dark to see the line , and Trent called to the man on the rod to keep it pointing at the Zodiac . |
| 2 | If the glider is trimmed for a normal cruising speed , because of the longitudinal stability it will require a forward movement and pressure on the stick to keep it diving at a higher speed . |
| 3 | One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran . |
| 4 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher fought to have it put at the top of the agenda at the EC Summit in June 1989 . |
| 6 | You can extend this time if necessary to have it happen at a suitably dramatic moment ; the staging of the event is more important than the exact time . |
| 7 | In the Middle Ages these mills were the property of the lord of the manor who possessed ‘ soke rights ’ , which meant that anyone growing corn on his manor was obliged to have it ground at the lord 's mill because hand mills were outlawed . |
| 8 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |