Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 You have to follow the rules and work at the right pace to make it work .
2 it existed , in reality , because Ford needed something special to tempt people into their showrooms and Shelby was in the right place at the right time to provide it .
3 The tests showed that if a product which should be cooked at 180°C is deep-fried at the correct temperature to seal it and is cooked as recommended , it will absorb only 6% of its weight in oil .
4 Ian Rush fed the ball to Steve McManaman , who for just about the first time was decisive with his delivery , hitting the ball low across the face of the goal , and there was Walters at the far post to tap it in .
5 At the annual parish meeting it was heard that the rats were beginning to explore and were going out into Church Street .
6 On Thursday at the 17th Arnold knocks it up to an identical spot and says , ‘ What club is it , Tip ? ’
7 Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame .
8 Stuart Goldie , business manager at the Botanic Centre said it was fitting that it would be opening in May , as Middlesbrough started its year as Environment City .
9 She would hold the end of the twine while he walked away from her backwards across the freshly dug earth , unwinding the ball of twine slowly and deliberately , crouching at the other end to peg it into the earth , then coming back to stake her end too .
10 With an ability to take a hardcore hip hop track and make the curly-permed DJ at the local disco understand it , Cook became the pop rap remix king ; an indispensable link in the chain that brought Brooklyn to Basildon and Basingstoke .
11 On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track .
12 Those canny souls that know how often these things fall at the last hurdle can stop holding their breath and relax over Tadpole Technology Plc 's deal to do a Power RISC-based notebook for IBM Corp : IBM has paid £325,000 for 500,000 new Tadpole shares at what is now the bargain issue price of 65p , which at last week 's price of 224 pence gives it an instant paper profit of £795,000 ; it also gets warrants for 2.22m more shares at the same price to take it to 12.9% .
13 Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air .
14 The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work .
15 Well the only thing you can do is hopefully your next test is n't at the same time make it a
16 The child must be shown the word in print , and at the same time hear it pronounced .
17 This seems an ideal opportunity to improve the play provision on Scorton playing field and at the same time bring it into line with the rest of the borough .
18 It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence .
19 Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse .
20 The three novels chart an attempt to develop linguistic techniques which represent the current state of affairs and at the same time challenge it by enlisting subversive laughter as a tool to destabilize fixed systems and tear away their protective layers of discursive convention .
21 The anorexic cultivates emptiness ( and being emptied , through purgation , etc. ) and at the same time denies it — or , at least , denies its pain .
22 We feel that , for an Englishman , to ask this question is at the same time to answer it .
23 The thought patterns allow me to erm put down what I wanted to talk about , expand on it and at the same time break it down into areas and on the other and spend some time on each area .
24 After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) .
25 Chapman , he said , had begged him not to let Buchan go , but at the same time made it clear that , because of his previous suspension for alleged financial irregularities at Leeds in 1919 , he preferred not to have anything to do with extra payments .
26 It was therefore thought important to publicise again the condition and at the same time characterise it and discover its natural history using a larger number of cases .
27 It was a pleasure that she wanted to press into her body while at the same time throw it off as far away from her as possible .
28 On some days Marcus said nothing to him at all , while at the same time making it , without word or gesture , clear that his presence was helpful .
29 The death of Gay News provoked a considerable growth in out-of-London calls for information no longer available in that magazine 's supplement , while at the same time making it far more difficult for us to obtain the information the callers needed and throwing an internal emphasis on that side of our work .
30 Ownership of this asset accordingly conferred unchallengeable power and influence on a comparative minority , while at the same time working it gave the overwhelming majority of the population their livelihood .
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