Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it changed at all ? |
| 2 | Dave as the horse is known gets excited although you would n't know it to look at him now . |
| 3 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to remain at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 4 | And , although this huge deficit is in large measure a consequence of the fall in tax revenue and the cost of unemployment in the recession , the IFS expect it to stay at this level for some years even if a gradual recovery does take place . |
| 5 | He let it go at that , smiling to himself as he suggested to Iris Sunderby that she go up to her room and put her things together . |
| 6 | The company had a prototype built and running , and employees say it ran at 51.2 GFLOPS peak — three times the performance of the best machine commercially available . |
| 7 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 8 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 9 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 10 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 11 | The plain fact is , if a PC does what you want it to do at a speed you 're happy with , then its performance is perfectly acceptable . |
| 12 | I mean obviously I 'd have to pay more er for if I want it to end at sixty . |
| 13 | I was a fool ; I ought to have let it go at that , but I asked him why he did n't approve — and had a regular tirade ! |
| 14 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 15 | The snag lay in the price of meat , the Bank wanting it raised to choke off local demand and free meat for export , the government wanting it held at its current low level to keep urban meat-eaters happy . |
| 16 | And it is not possible for us to know anything at all about him unless he is generous enough to disclose himself Another book in this series has tackled the question of revelation ; suffice it to say at this point that without revelation we can not say anything about the Lord who is Spirit . |
| 17 | Suffice it to say at this point that because of the complex and changing world in which the public sector operates , implementation of policies may solve certain problems but is likely to throw up further problems which in turn need to be solved : hence the cyclical nature of the policy-making process . |
| 18 | It says it finishes at midnight but erm I 've a feeling piss off like like about eleven . |
| 19 | Walker and McKinnon also deny stealing the car that night and Walker denies driving it recklessly and causing it to brake at speed . |
| 20 | There appears to be a gimmick on the throttle causing it to idle at some 1200 rpm when cold , although it drops back to 600 rpm when hot . |
| 21 | That 's so as you can watch it looking at telly ! |
| 22 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 23 | She gave me rather a long look but let it go at that . |
| 24 | Ward was changing the subject and l let it go at that . |
| 25 | Wycliffe let it go at that . |
| 26 | Agnes let it go at that . |
| 27 | If you , you ca n't do it looking at the book . |
| 28 | This packet of light would disturb the particle and cause it to move at a speed in some direction . |
| 29 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
| 30 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |