Example sentences of "[vb base] it at " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Tell them what you 're going to tell them before you tell them , and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them . |
3 | Before we forget it at the end . |
4 | Coun Katherine Carr said : ‘ We are the custodians of something so valuable and we forget it at our peril . ’ |
5 | Say it at same price again , yeah . |
6 | say it at school and somebody 'd say that and go oh ! |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Lot a hundred and eleven eighty eight note player piano , there it is , thank you twenty for it , twenty pounds twenty twenty twenty pounds twenty pounds , no one want it at twenty pounds twenty pounds is bid , thank you , twenty two twenty two now , any more ? |
10 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Store your cheese in a cool part of the refrigerator and remove it at least 1hr before eating . |
13 | If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops . |
14 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
15 | Whereas the government publicly estimated the cost of meeting EC water standards at £3–4 billion , City sources put it at £22–32 billion over 11 years . |
16 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
17 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
18 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It would not comment on the potential value of the joint venture but published reports put it at around $3,000m , adding that Cable & Wireless and Telstra would share 40% , Benpres would take another 40% , and the rest would go to smaller investors . |
21 | The official census gives the figures for the number of Chinese Muslims as fifteen million but independent estimates put it at between 30 and 40 million . |
22 | Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
25 | Estimates put it at 40,000 million gallons of flood water . |
26 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
27 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
28 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
29 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
30 | Erm , well I put it at the . |