Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 2 | I think my relationship is a fairly normal one , but I do find myself bending over backwards not to erm use any of the sort of additional knowledge I have of education , and if there are things going on that perhaps I think that there might be better ways of doing it , then I bend over backwards not to give that kind of impression or to suggest it at all , because it seems to me that it 's going to make the relationship with the school or with the teachers erm a rather awkward one , and I do n't think it will good for my children . |
| 3 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 4 | Three years after its publication , less than half of Solihull 's secondary school teachers claim to have seen the booklet , and a much smaller proportion claim to have read it all , or to recall it at all well . |
| 5 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 6 | ( b ) It is difficult to stop the record or start it at exactly the point that the teacher wishes . |
| 7 | But as the new realists and the Christian revivalists equally understood , mankind needs its shared experience of reality ; and conversation apart , it is doubtful if anything but fiction can do it as well , or do it at all . |
| 8 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 9 | There must be no provision for the entity to keep the asset on repayment of the finance , or to reacquire it at any time . |
| 10 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 11 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 12 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 13 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 14 | It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) . |
| 15 | Where a book might originally sell at £15 , Smith might buy it for £1.50 and sell it at £5.50 — a profit was turned , and the public benefited . |
| 16 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 17 | She dived for it and levelled it at him . |
| 18 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 19 | She picked up a Biro off his desk and levelled it at him . |
| 20 | Gail ripped up a brochure and chucked it at Tjolle . |
| 21 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 22 | If you open it up , if you do get it open , and advertise it at Boddingtons a pound a pint , get them straight to come in . |
| 23 | ‘ And seeing it at night … ’ |
| 24 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 25 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 26 | Edwards acquired the famous Maffeo Pinelli collection of early printed books from Venice and sold it at auction in 1789 and 1790 . |
| 27 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 28 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 29 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 30 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |