Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 2 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 3 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 4 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 5 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 6 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 7 | The examination he looks upon as completely separate ; he will attend to it at the last possible moment . |
| 8 | Even though it must have been obvious that he would not hold to it at the last , the threat was enough to make Stormy Petrel veer again to her original course , and though she was trying to increase speed , and was perhaps a little more powerful than Sea Otter , we , on our straight line , could hold her comfortably . |
| 9 | The fairy Grandmarina appears , and gives Alicia a magic fishbone that will bring her whatever she wishes for ‘ provided she wishes for it at the right time ’ . |
| 10 | To and fro , weaving , sometimes tied back to the point , moving from point to point , guided by Jennifer , each woman deeply involved with the dual effort of formulating an opinion and arguing for it at the same time . |
| 11 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you know , like he says he was coming up to you — this is the way I look at it — coming up to ask you to lend , say , a lawnmower , right — this is when he 's no drunk , ordinary sober , you know — and he 'll be walking up to you and thinking about it at the same time . |
| 13 | My response is not a traditional wind-up speech , because this is the hon. Lady 's debate and I am sure that she will receive the leave of the House to reply to it at the appropriate time . |
| 14 | The dynamics of the energy cascade and dissipation may be supposed to be governed by the energy per unit time ( per unit mass ) supplied to it at the large eddy ( low wavenumber ) end . |