Example sentences of "[vb past] it at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 3 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 4 | Setting the blaster to low power , he directed it at the indentation , melting the rock slowly and gently . |
| 5 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 6 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 7 | Then Nour turned and saw us , and he leapt from his chair and took a cup of coffee ready-poured and threw it at the cat , who was near my foot , so that my foot was covered in coffee and the cat fled . |
| 8 | He took the grenade from his pocket , unleased the pin and threw it at the base of the double gates . |
| 9 | Stein came along , smelt the drink , refused to listen to Rough 's explanation , picked up the glass and threw it at the keeper and marched off . |
| 10 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |
| 11 | Slowly and carefully he picked up a stone and threw it at the window . |
| 12 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 13 | He tore it off and threw it at the wastepaper basket . |
| 14 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 15 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 16 | John found a torch and shone it at the engine cowling . |
| 17 | He picked up his book again , opened it at the marker and settled himself in his seat . |
| 18 | I sensed it at the funeral . |
| 19 | Once again a very enjoyable evening , erm , I pushed into something that er , I do n't think she really wanted to do initially , but she thoroughly enjoyed it at the end . |
| 20 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 21 | Thornton rebuilt it at the foot of the castle ramparts . |
| 22 | I ordered it at the branch of the Times Library then housed in Elliston and Cavell 's , the nearest equivalent to Harrods in the Oxford of pre-war years , and remember with what excitement I received it from their admirable librarian Miss Lush ( now Lady Ormerod ) at the end of my day 's work in the Bodleian . |
| 23 | Ah , I think the Foreign Office was trying to pursue the only sensible policy as it perceived it at the time , right through the entire period , um , since 1965 . |
| 24 | Yes , that 's how I perceived it at the time , but I was wrong . |
| 25 | The challenge which Gandhi posed to the British , as they perceived it at the time , was not to their consciences but to their authority . |
| 26 | They heard it at the beginning rather than at the end . |
| 27 | I remember also the reaction of one or two of Ben 's older contemporaries , Constant Lambert and Patrick Hadley , who were particularly touched by this quartet when they first heard it at the dress rehearsal . |
| 28 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 29 | He drew on his cigar carefully , then waved it at the major . |
| 30 | Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound . |