Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively anxious for its welfare ( he had not needed Jack 's admonition ) he drove it carefully at a modest pace , resisting the temptation to press hard upon the accelerator . |
| 2 | They have fired this interest by spending £44m on the issue , aiming it primarily at the retail investor when one might expect an issue of this sort to be more suitable for institutions . |
| 3 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 4 | Exploiting the glueyness of spider silk , a hummingbird will prod it repeatedly at a selected spot until at last it sticks . |
| 5 | Self-delusion could easily once again cloud the judgment of the shadow cabinet and Labour could go it alone at the next election , perhaps with the same misplaced confidence in a ‘ safety first ’ stance that will deliver success if the dangers inherent in new initiatives are avoided and new ideas anathemised . |
| 6 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 7 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 8 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 9 | Sabine pinned on a polite smile , and aimed it straight at the oncoming vehicle 's windscreen . |
| 10 | He said it straight at the senior officer , who looked for a moment as if someone had cracked a whip in his face . |
| 11 | Chesarynth gripped it convulsively at the strange sight of people milling around . |