Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 I WAS disgusted to read that the inquiry into the Windsor Castle fire produced only a one-and-a-half-page report writing it all off as an unfortunate accident .
2 The letters must have been at least two feet in height and to do this job from a ladder , with only a young apprentice to hold it steady was quite a feat .
3 In both cases the behaviour is not completely predictable , but observation for only a short time makes it so for all subsequent times . )
4 THERE are renewed fears that the scenically spectacular Cairngorm estate of Mar Lodge — which contains Ben MacDhui , the second highest mountain in Britain — might be lost to the nation following a failure by conservation bodies to put together a financial package to buy it .
5 So i it is just a sore thumb exercise it it 's er
6 It 's just a good way to mark it .
7 Ghost of the family that had failed it and sold it , still a stubborn Protestantism held it aloof from usefulness to any new owner .
8 It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways .
9 It is also a good idea to give it some toys .
10 But these were rare occurrences , and when later a longstanding relationship developed it brought frustration and irritation rather than contentment . ’
11 The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it .
12 This is because the different responses to Gettier all stem from different diagnoses of the way in which the tripartite analysis is lacking ; once we know what is missing , it should be quite a simple matter to add it .
13 The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me .
14 It also reached out into the social and anthropological fields , and indeed a special journal linking it with linguistics was founded as early as 1859 .
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