Example sentences of "it at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
4 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |
5 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
6 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
7 | C64 board games have something of a chequered history — is this twin pack a ‘ renaissance ’ , the ‘ king ’ of board sims or would you rather ‘ pawn ’ it at the earliest opportunity ? |
8 | That will worry hon. Members on both sides of the House , and we should discuss it at the earliest opportunity . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
11 | He touched a lump of rotting offal and , scooping it up , throwing it at the first assassin now tripping towards him . |
12 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
13 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
14 | Thank God for dome tents with two bays : you collect snow from one end for tea , pass it through the middle-man , and then deposit it at the other end . |
15 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
16 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
17 | A rebuilt Lower Gate matches it at the other end . |
18 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
19 | Twin solutions to equations ( 9.17 ) and ( 9.19 ) of equal positive and negative values of a again correspond to the possibility of feeding the symmetric section at either end and terminating it at the other end . |
20 | It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side . |
21 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
22 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
23 | They would sell it at the best price they could get for it . |
24 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
25 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
26 | ‘ Listen , friend , ’ the Campbell produced a pistol and pointed it at the tall boy , ‘ do you see this ? ’ |
27 | I 'm giving you my solemn word I do n't know what you 're talking about with all this stuff about card games in Room what 's it at the Regal Arms . ’ |
28 | The People 's Party should also be benefiting from the little-noticed collapse of the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) , a party that took votes away from it at the general election in 1989 . |
29 | It was all a question of catching it at the right angle . |
30 | Muscles yes , you 've got to er if you 're going to build power into muscles you 've got to , you 've got to give the load to those particular muscles and you 've got to do it at the right load . |