Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her haste , the wayward T-shirt had slipped , and she hooked it back on to her shoulder . |
| 2 | Chilling , not overheating , has become the danger , so the male opens up the mound during the day to make the most of the waning sun , and covers it over again at night to retain what warmth it has . |
| 3 | Plug it in anywhere in the building , and by pressing buttons you can switch appliances on and on , or dim lights , either immediately or at preset times . |
| 4 | The wheel careered onwards , carrying their chair over the summit and hurling it out again into the sickening void beyond . |
| 5 | I sometimes start an investigation by doing a bit of ‘ working-out ’ on the board and using intentionally ‘ messy ’ techniques to illustrate how useful they can be , always emphasising that they will , at some stage , have to look back at their work to write it up neatly in some form or other . |
| 6 | I mean we will be working with British Coal to work it out further in fine detail . |
| 7 | On your behalf they can approach other potential participants , negotiate a common format and basis for the figures , collect and collate the information , and send it out again in a form that disguises which figures belong to which company . |
| 8 | I mull it over silently for much of the morning . |
| 9 | He just seemed to pull it down out of the air and lay it over her |
| 10 | I snatched it up halfway through the first tinkle . |
| 11 | Then , barely 1,200 employees worked at the yard and the employee-led VSEL buy-out team built it back up to 2,500 . |
| 12 | Then he nodded at Benny who took the hammer and brought it back over his head , ready to smash it down on to the cartridge at a sign from his brother . |
| 13 | This is what cumulative evolution is all about , although , because of our high mutation rate , we have speeded it up here to unrealistic rates . |
| 14 | For instance , there 's a 19th century telegraph relay station , where human operators function like modern amplifiers — they receive a weak signal and tap it out again for the next leg of the journey . |
| 15 | Serve the sauce cold ; or warm it through just before serving . |
| 16 | He 's touched it , and he 's took it off out in the kitchen altogether , the kitchen 's ! |
| 17 | Prepare the containers by filling loosely to the brim with peat compost , press it down gently with finger pressure around the rim of the tray to ensure there are no air pockets and roughly level it again , then press it down to make a firm , level surface about ½ in ( 12mm ) below the rim . |
| 18 | The name meant virtually nothing to him , and a casual observer might easily have suspected that Manville had picked it out completely at random . |
| 19 | He tried it over uneasily in front of the mirror . |
| 20 | Apply plenty of rubber solution adhesive to the back of the frame and hardboard , then carefully place the backing fabric in position , gently but firmly pressing it down all over the back and frame until it is evenly fixed . |
| 21 | And there was a move to set it up again in the late Sixties , but that got sat on . |
| 22 | Scott ran both hands through his hair , smoothing it back tight against his scalp . |
| 23 | They dropped it down again to forty one . |
| 24 | They unrolled the map which had been tucked in Snodgrass 's cloak and spread it out carefully on the ground . |
| 25 | I put it on right at the end of our conversation at yours this morning . |
| 26 | Are n't you gon na say hello to little-un , put it on there for me . |
| 27 | I put it on there with my key . |
| 28 | Ha ha stupid moron ! put it on there like that ! |
| 29 | I put it down partly to the cameras . ’ |
| 30 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |