Example sentences of "it at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This means you get the debt guaranteed by a bank in the buyer 's country , then sell it at a discount to another bank . |
2 | But we change it at a company level . |
3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
4 | The Bosnian Serb parliament rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan even though its leader , Radovan Karadjic , had signed it at a peace conference in Athens . |
5 | Yang was also writing about his native village but he wrote about it at a distance when resident in New York . |
6 | Once we have identified a need , we can go back and work out how we can satisfy it at a price that the market is prepared to pay . |
7 | Maybe you can get it at a knock down price . |
8 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
9 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
10 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
11 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
12 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
13 | He lifted his glass to his lips , draining it at a gulp . |
14 | Colin picked up his coffee and drank it at a gulp . |
15 | Cranston seized the bowl by its two silver handles and half drained it at a gulp . |
16 | Yeah , but erm , carry around , I mean you might want it at a minute 's notice |
17 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
18 | Any chariot may have an additional giant wolf to pull it at a cost of +4 points . |
19 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
20 | Well you you buy it all at thirty three or twenty five percent discount so you can then sell it at a bit more . |
21 | He told me he used to catch the train from Penn Station , New York , get off it at a station called Back Bay where a car would be waiting for him . |
22 | Will my right hon. Friend continue vigorously and robustly to negotiate the British contribution to the European budget and , at the end , submit it at a level which the House of Commons and the country can accept ? |
23 | Because we can only understand it at a level of artificial instrumentation , and mathematical calculations on paper , we find it hard to imagine a little animal doing it in its head . |
24 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
25 | and you thought you would carry on being good at it at A level . |
26 | You erect a radar dish several metres across in your garden , point it at a satellite in the sky and dip into the menu of television and radio programmes that are continually being bounced across the world by broadcast stations . |
27 | Then I drive it at a brick wall . |
28 | Er but I did it at a scale like erm one centimetre for o for every hour it 's blowing in that direction . |
29 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
30 | Gerry Fitzgerald , the Belfast Telegraph 's award-winning photographer , took it at a day out by the National Canine Defence League at Ballymena . |