Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the windows we shall put in here are the type of windows called a fenestral which are made of linen and I 'll show you one of those later on rather than explain it now . |
| 2 | This circuit is meant to be adapted to your specific needs , so rather than call it ‘ The Lakeland Way ’ or anything as horrendous as that , I would rather call it something antiquated like : ‘ Notes Towards a Considered Circular Pedestrian Peregrination Amongst some of the Major Fells and Dales of the County of Cumbria ’ , but it is hardly a working title . |
| 3 | Marx pawed at his jacket , rubbing the ash in rather than dusting it off . |
| 4 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 5 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 6 | Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards . |
| 7 | You know I think we 've gone over it long enough and leave it to see the er |
| 8 | You lower it in gently and sloosh it about so that the acid covers the surface . |
| 9 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 10 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 11 | A couple of policemen caught the boat as it came in alongside and steadied it . |
| 12 | Well I said that does n't excuse the thing of , of tipping all over and putting it inside and not shifting it . |
| 13 | Making job descriptions an integral part of the daily work arrangements however , goes much further than using it to identify what sort of person you want to recruit . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The pilot tried to come down once and aborted it . |
| 15 | Instead of liking the look of the water , wading in carefully and finding it was wonderful , she 'd tumbled in at the deep end . |
| 16 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 17 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 18 | Even now , I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan ; after all , it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground . |
| 19 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 20 | Lydia even went so far as to bathe it in vinegar at Betty 's behest . |
| 21 | ‘ I am to be questioned and interfered with and hounded , not to be left , doing a job of work the way I choose , a necessary job , a job our sister has made tediously inevitable , a job the result of which may save us from potential disgrace , even if we can not go so far as to expect it to improve our situation out of all recognition . |
| 22 | She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it . |
| 23 | Now nobody 's done it , now we 've got two people in our area and one packing line , so I suggest we get them three together now and sort it out as to who done it and if they have n't done it and then wait while the three o'clock mane comes on , see if he 's done it . |
| 24 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 25 | But you ca n't even leave it down here and pick it up later |
| 26 | Either come down here and have it now or I 'll eat it . |
| 27 | that if had relinquished all his responsibility regarding the mortgage and so on and signed it over to you , then you could have turned round and say alright that 's it , I 'm going to sell the house |
| 28 | And this feller caved in then and admitted it . |
| 29 | Get right down there and make it er we 've got a record playing in a moment make it er make it sort of fairly butch fairly butch okay ? |
| 30 | Come and sit down there and do it with Mummy . |