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

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1 The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package .
2 The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package .
3 You are likely to need to modify it at least a little as it is American in origin .
4 If Iran is cheating on nuclear weapons , the International Atomic Energy Agency has yet to catch it at it .
5 Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) .
6 If you act a part properly you do n't act it at all ; you are it , and you make it — you .
7 A spiral perm can cost over £100 but do n't be tempted to try it at home to save money .
8 ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’
9 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 .
10 ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East .
11 Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% .
12 I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) .
13 Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three .
14 Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth .
15 I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England .
16 Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner .
17 ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too .
18 I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto .
19 This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time .
20 ‘ I did n't know it at the time .
21 I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again .
22 Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks .
23 ‘ The goat does n't know it at first , but learns .
24 I do n't know it at all .
25 Hello do n't know it at all .
26 She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading .
27 I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ?
28 Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything .
29 If she felt the presence of a man she had never known here in this house , just how much did Marguerite feel his presence and just how much did she need it at this time ?
30 Not that I shall probably need it at all .
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