Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later .
2 He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe .
3 I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired .
4 So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God !
5 Right , well what do you think of it at the front ?
6 I 've only heard of it at the fashion college .
7 Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow .
8 ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’
9 It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time .
10 ‘ There 's not a lot we can do about it at the moment , is there ? ’
11 There 's nothing you can do about it at the moment .
12 ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely .
13 Homogeneous catalysts are compounds of metals that dissolve in the reaction mixture and which must be separated from it at the end .
14 Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ?
15 I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend .
16 Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation .
17 ‘ It had a lot stacked against it at the beginning , ’ agony aunt Claire Rayner said last night .
18 ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details .
19 So in the evening , after supper , Clara walked off by herself and caught the Métro and got off it at the Place Pigalle , for that was the only name on the Métro map that she recognized .
20 And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre .
21 I had n't thought about it at the time
22 Those preferring milk to grog or porter were plentifully supplied with it at the house . ’
23 I 've got plants growing in it at the moment .
24 A field which wishes to attempt to ensure that some offers are made in combination with one or more other fields sees to it at the beginning of the cycle that ‘ reserved offers ’ are set aside .
25 He rubbed his chin absently on the top of Tessa 's head , so that he could look over it at the girl .
26 On that talking point perhaps , would you go through the Channel Tunnel , knowing what you know about it at the moment ?
27 She wondered , not for the first time , how it was that her body could be desperate for liquid at one end while bursting to get rid of it at the other .
28 But the level of activity is not constant so either the permanent staff have to deal with it at the expense of other work , which leads to chaos ; or , temporaries have to be employed , which again leads to chaos .
29 ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’
30 Well she said I 'd sort of thought of going , are you going , I says yeah okay I said , if you wo n't go I 'll , we 'll go together , I said but I do n't particularly want to get , you know , roped into it at the moment .
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