Example sentences of "in [v-ing] it at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In directing it at the targets they did , however , they produced effects that feminists such as Josephine Butler might have eventually found abhorrent . |
| 2 | But she succeeded in holding it at bay . |
| 3 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 4 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 5 | But now , a hundred years on , certain factions persist in taking it at face value . |
| 6 | Because , she thought , she had never been there with anyone who was interested in taking it at anything other than face value . |
| 7 | Finally retrieval is a separate process because of another familiar phenomenon that it is possible to know something , that is it must be in storage , but not actually succeed in retrieving it at a particular time . |
| 8 | Participants were particularly inspired by the lead given by Namibia in defining communication policy ( see pages 4 and 5 of this newsletter ) and in placing it at the service of justice , freedom and democratic growth . |
| 9 | Participants were particularly inspired by the lead given by Namibia in defining communication policy ( see pages 4 and 5 of this newsletter ) and in placing it at the service of justice , freedom and democratic growth . |