Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 2 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 3 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 4 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 5 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 6 | No I did n't put it on last night , but I did leave me heating on , it clicks off at nine o'clock , but the house was warm |
| 7 | This practice is in marked contrast to business organizations where , although the budget is of importance , it is never included in the published financial statements proper ; indeed , it would be unusual for it to appear publicly at all . |
| 8 | This system , generally known as the Cabinet system , has been , in its broad features , adopted by most European constitutional states , and it matters not at all whether they are called monarchies or republics . |
| 9 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 10 | It dropped again at first but eventually picked up for a lively last lap . |
| 11 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 12 | Mum well Susan took him this morning so he was to have it done early at eight |
| 13 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 14 | It came off at one stage . |
| 15 | The Winter had been seriously costed , and it came out at twelve thousand million francs ‘ at the most ’ . |
| 16 | and it it crops up at various different stages through the play as well , it 's not just erm , you know |
| 17 | That one e erm I mean I 'm a I was just I I said twenty pound O six , it was a quick calculation , it ends up at seventeen per cent margin . |
| 18 | It ends exactly at 8.30 , as the candidate had asked that it should . |
| 19 | I shook my head regretfully — I had n't brought it with me , thinking the English would look down on my caftan with its silver belt — although I saw garments like it selling here at huge prices . |
| 20 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 21 | On the cold hill , a fence now surrounds the circle , and it interferes not at all with the mood or countenance of the rocks . |
| 22 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't remember it coming up at that meeting of Senate , ’ says Philip . |
| 24 | It aims more at political and peaceful penetration than at profit . |
| 25 | It aims chiefly at more , here and now , for the organised workers of the craft or industry [ and ] accepts as inevitable , if not as just , the existing capitalistic organisation and the wage system … |
| 26 | so it just shows you , it started off at one pound twenty on the meter that was |
| 27 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 28 | A veteran of Vietnam and Korea , it weighs in at fifteen tons and guzzles a hundred and fifty gallons of fuel an hour . |
| 29 | That stretched to 13 by the time it rolled in at 11.47 to loudspeaker apologies reporting technical problems at Peterborough . |
| 30 | It 's supposed to look like skin , but it do n't at all . |