Example sentences of "[prep] it at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 2 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 3 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 4 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 5 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 6 | So we need to get the word of God , go out with it at the right time and leave it with people . |
| 7 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 8 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 10 | The People 's Party should also be benefiting from the little-noticed collapse of the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) , a party that took votes away from it at the general election in 1989 . |
| 11 | The Precision in a way is too middly , but the thing about the Jazz is that you can get more top and bottom from it at the same time , and that 's the sound I like . |
| 12 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 13 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |
| 14 | The dynamics of the energy cascade and dissipation may be supposed to be governed by the energy per unit time ( per unit mass ) supplied to it at the large eddy ( low wavenumber ) end . |
| 15 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 16 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 17 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 18 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 19 | He also said he had no desire to tackle the principle of comprehensive education : ‘ I do n't see any need for it at the present time . |
| 20 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 21 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 22 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 23 | To and fro , weaving , sometimes tied back to the point , moving from point to point , guided by Jennifer , each woman deeply involved with the dual effort of formulating an opinion and arguing for it at the same time . |
| 24 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 25 | But he stressed that he told officials about it at the post-match drugs test . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 27 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 28 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |