Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 31 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 32 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 33 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 34 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 35 | Reaching out for a vegetarian Scotch egg , and hurling it at his brother , Randy added casually , ‘ Will you have dinner with me tonight ? ’ |
| 36 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 37 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 40 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 41 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
| 42 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 43 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 44 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 45 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 46 | Glenn Gould played this regularly , even recorded it ( two movements on Le Chant du Monde CD LDC278 799 , 10/86 ) and played it at his last public concert in 1964 . |
| 47 | In the 1930s Lord Aberconway bought the Mill 's Music House , dismantled and reconstructed it at Bodnant in North Wales . |
| 48 | Store your cheese in a cool part of the refrigerator and remove it at least 1hr before eating . |
| 49 | Do n't try and do it at too fast a speed . |
| 50 | " They 've asked her to come and do it at their Christmas Club , " she said . |
| 51 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 52 | It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side . |
| 53 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 54 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 55 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
| 56 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
| 57 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 58 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 59 | Frozen food storage cabinets are designed to accept pre-frozen food and hold it at the proper storage temperature — 18°C to -22°C . |
| 60 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |