Example sentences of "it at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 2 | He shoved it at the uniformed man 's face , watching with pleasure as he recoiled from the stench . |
| 3 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 4 | You rarely need more than a teaspoonful , you add it at the absolute final moment of cooking , you do not blaze it ( at least I do not ) , you treat it simply as a seasoning . |
| 5 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |
| 6 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 7 | Coming upon me as it did , however , in the midst of such a busy period , I could not afford to let it preoccupy me unduly , and I thus decided I should resolve it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 8 | C64 board games have something of a chequered history — is this twin pack a ‘ renaissance ’ , the ‘ king ’ of board sims or would you rather ‘ pawn ’ it at the earliest opportunity ? |
| 9 | Whilst it is necessary to commence with an idea or concept , it is important to evaluate it at the earliest possible time , and thus the procedure is to commence testing by moving briefly into both the analysis and scheming phases . |
| 10 | That will worry hon. Members on both sides of the House , and we should discuss it at the earliest opportunity . |
| 11 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 12 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 13 | Swales might , at last , have made a wise decision — if he does not go back on it at the first sign of failure . |
| 14 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 15 | He touched a lump of rotting offal and , scooping it up , throwing it at the first assassin now tripping towards him . |
| 16 | Thank God for dome tents with two bays : you collect snow from one end for tea , pass it through the middle-man , and then deposit it at the other end . |
| 17 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 18 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
| 19 | It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side . |
| 20 | A rebuilt Lower Gate matches it at the other end . |
| 21 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 22 | Twin solutions to equations ( 9.17 ) and ( 9.19 ) of equal positive and negative values of a again correspond to the possibility of feeding the symmetric section at either end and terminating it at the other end . |
| 23 | He opened it at the relevant page . |
| 24 | Taking the ledger from under his arm , he opened it at the relevant page and slid it on to the desk . |
| 25 | They would sell it at the best price they could get for it . |
| 26 | If you continue working , say for an additional five years , your pension will then be 45 per cent higher than if you had started taking it at the normal age . |
| 27 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 28 | ‘ Listen , friend , ’ the Campbell produced a pistol and pointed it at the tall boy , ‘ do you see this ? ’ |
| 29 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 30 | I 'm giving you my solemn word I do n't know what you 're talking about with all this stuff about card games in Room what 's it at the Regal Arms . ’ |