Example sentences of "[verb] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you act a part properly you do n't act it at all ; you are it , and you make it — you . |
| 2 | ‘ The goat does n't know it at first , but learns . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I do n't know it at all . |
| 5 | Hello do n't know it at all . |
| 6 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |
| 7 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Sometimes I did n't even need it at all I could walk about shopping and everything . |
| 10 | Not that I shall probably need it at all . |
| 11 | Good God , yes I know it 's been very , very heavy here too , there were certain areas over here certainly needed a bit of rain , but now there 's certainly did n't need it at all |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 14 | Maria was silent , digesting it , slightly incredulous but forced to accept it at last . |
| 15 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 16 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 17 | Otherwise , it seems , we do n't buy it at all . |
| 18 | mean they had to stop eventually , but they would n't buy it at all , no way |
| 19 | I think they can buy it at twenty eight . |
| 20 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 21 | Whilst a through understanding of AI is not required they should have a little background since all are likely to meet it at one time or another . |
| 22 | But because of the recession , my husband and I could n't afford to pay our mortgage , so I had to go back to work and I do n't enjoy it at all . |
| 23 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 24 | ‘ Even if you do n't enjoy it at first , why not give pleasure to others ? |
| 25 | Er the erm the environmental health check I think he did discuss it at fantastic length , the question of our public lavatories an an and the savings that can be made and the judgement it came to in the end was a , was a very one I think on the outlook against of what you can reasonably do , erm nevertheless I do gather that erm erm it is no longer necessary under standing orders , for erm amendments to the budget to be self financing because you can move amendments to simply increase the budget and er the amendment that I reserve I suppose , it 's not very much . |
| 26 | We did not discuss it at all . |
| 27 | Say it at same price again , yeah . |
| 28 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 29 | ‘ We want to see proper education and we have said we will put a penny on income tax to provide it at all levels from the age of three upwards . ’ |
| 30 | Some people discover this element of themselves while still very young ; others come to it at a much later stage in their lives — and others never manage to find it at all . |