Example sentences of "he [verb] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | James V ordered that the Crown of Scotland be remodelled in time for him to wear it at the coronation of his second Queen , Mary of Guise-Lorraine , at Holyrood Abbey in February 1540 . |
| 2 | His expression warned him to leave it at that . |
| 3 | Soft ground is essential for Yahoo and conditions should be to his liking , although if he could not beat Desert Orchid in the Cheltenham bog it is difficult to visualise him doing it at Kempton . |
| 4 | Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’ |
| 5 | Even after the king is killed and Macbeth is named king his ambition will not let him leave it at that . |
| 6 | I I was , I were help him point it at the time . |
| 7 | He beat out ten minutes of pain-filled , throbbing rhythm , sometimes accompanied by low , anguished singing , before Doris came stamping and peg up the stairs and banged on his door and told him to stop it at once . |
| 8 | He made it at 9.30pm yet heard Mr Gilbey tell Diana he was about to meet friends for dinner . |
| 9 | He points it at me . |
| 10 | By the time he sold it at auction ( Sotheby 's , New York , May 1989 ) it had given him a real net annual rate of return of just under 20 per cent , after allowing for commission , insurance and inflation . |
| 11 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 12 | Did n't he cover it at home ? |
| 13 | He levelled it at the gunman then let his hand drop to his side . |
| 14 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 15 | Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers . |
| 16 | He reported it at once and when the police and ambulance got there they found the bodies of a man and a girl lying on the road and partially burned . |
| 17 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 18 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 19 | He directed it at Mr Brown , calling him childish and accusing him of launching the sleaziest-ever attacks in US politics . |
| 20 | Setting the blaster to low power , he directed it at the indentation , melting the rock slowly and gently . |
| 21 | On the rare occasions when the Indian does seek to build up a reserve for himself , he squanders it at once . |
| 22 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 23 | It came free and he threw it at me . |
| 24 | Just me ? today because in because it was in your place I came back from she 's got a big scratch book mum and she glued it on and came that close to me it 's about there and he threw it at me and there . |
| 25 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 26 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 27 | This summer he displayed it at air shows around the UK and in France and went to Malaga in it . |
| 28 | Horse and Jockey AC match secretary Mick Dryers had an unusual Sunday morning — he spent it at home for the first time in two years . |
| 29 | So he gets it at four quid but |
| 30 | Cleverly he arranged it at night when there were no cars parked in Clifton Street , otherwise the swing of the 50-feet car would surely have reached them ! |