Example sentences of "[verb] it at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package . |
| 2 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package . |
| 3 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 4 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 5 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 6 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 7 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 8 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 10 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 11 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 13 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 14 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 15 | De Gaulle wanted the agricultural settlement but was not prepared to accept it at the price of giving in to the other five and the Commission on the issues of resourcing and budgetary control . |
| 16 | Tell them what you 're going to tell them before you tell them , and then summarise it at the end and tell them what you told them . |
| 17 | You can buy it at the delicatessen in Long Barton , you know . ’ |
| 18 | SO next time you need washing powder , washing up liquid , shampoo , etc. do n't buy it at the supermarket ( they make enough profit already ! ) order it from me ( I order on Sundays to deliver the next Friday ) and LET NCT HAVE THE PROFITS … |
| 19 | O M O V you ca n't buy it at the chemist it is n't a new type of bread for some religious festival it 's not a new cleaning detergent O M O V what is O M O V ? |
| 20 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 21 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 22 | So I read it and I gave a similar look back and I think I probably said something like that did n't happen or something along those lines , that 's hard to believe that had happened and passed it back to him and then that was it , we did not discuss it at the time … |
| 23 | Before we forget it at the end . |
| 24 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 25 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 26 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 27 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 28 | The man came back from the bank in a van and the other men stopped it at the gate and grabbed the money . ’ |
| 29 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 30 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |