Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh ! er look I mean it at all unless David gives me a little |
| 2 | like I imagined it at all . |
| 3 | I read it at one sitting , and it scared me stupid . |
| 4 | I consider that she would have found a job by early Autumn and therefore the sum must be more than a , nearly a year 's earnings and I assess it at eight thousand pounds . |
| 5 | I discuss it at some length in Chapter 6 . |
| 6 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 7 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 8 | I make my living out of explaining things to a lot of dum-dums , and if I do it at all I expect to get paid . ’ |
| 9 | If I do it at half the speed , just do it at thirty miles an hour , how long will that take ? |
| 10 | If I do it at half the speed . |
| 11 | Now if I do it at half that speed , if I do if I drive at thirty miles an hour , how long will it take me to do the sixty miles ? |
| 12 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 13 | But I left it at that . |
| 14 | If I snatch your hat from your head with intent to steal it , that is conversion as well as trespass , but if I throw it at another person , that is trespass only , for I am not questioning your title to it . |
| 15 | I held it at that . |
| 16 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 17 | It ran : ‘ Well , frankly , the problem as I see it at this moment in time is whether I should just lie down under all this hassle … |
| 18 | CHARLES : Well , frankly , the problem as I see it At this moment in time is whether I Should just lie down under all this hassle And let them walk all over me , Or , whether I should just say : ‘ OK , I get the message ’ , and do myself in . |
| 19 | I 'd like tomorrow to be the happiest day of her life , with nothing to mar it at all . |
| 20 | Some guys are n't going to be able to walk for a week — they 've got tattered feet , but er nobody begrudges it , nobody begrudges it at all . |
| 21 | Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category . |
| 22 | If the tone was a little condescending she did not complain ; it was startling enough that he had brought himself to say it at all , and so he must have felt , for he coloured to the brows . |
| 23 | You will have realized , for example , that if you crunch your car into your neighbour 's gatepost at 20 miles an hour you will do much more damage than if you nudge it at 10 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think you read it at all . ’ |
| 27 | She opened it at random and placed it on Matilda 's desk . |
| 28 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 29 | But she hated it at first . |
| 30 | I can not recall whether it was a Labour Government who set it at that figure . |