Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But if I win it at least I will be stopping Ayrton Senna — and that is my way of helping Alain to win the title . ’ |
| 3 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 4 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 5 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 6 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 7 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 8 | I thought I might hit him with it and knock him out , if I did it at just the right moment . |
| 9 | Oh right , yes yes the Sweeney it 's quite good it ba , ba , ba with Dennis Waterman , ba , ba , do , ba , ba , ba , ba , ba , ba quick mow that jogger over got him , now we 've got time turn this when we 've done this , erm , put the plants in and everything till I gave it at table tennis |
| 10 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 12 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 13 | So it 's just simply to er comment about the the future work that 's gon na be done by Glanmole er , the work of investigation as I understand it at the end of that first section . |
| 14 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 15 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 16 | CHARLES : Well , frankly , the problem as I see it At this moment in time is whether I Should just lie down under all this hassle And let them walk all over me , Or , whether I should just say : ‘ OK , I get the message ’ , and do myself in . |
| 17 | Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment . |
| 18 | I am sure that the House will start to fill rapidly as I address it at the start of the second day of debate on the Bill . |