Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 3 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 4 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 5 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 6 | The DEA was free to use it for any covert operation it wished , but if anything went wrong , Hurley could always say , ‘ Oh , you mean that Cypriot boat . ’ |
| 7 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 8 | The Canadian writer Mavis Gallant put it like this : ‘ The mystery of what a couple is , exactly , is almost the only true mystery left to us , and when we have come to the end of it there will be no more need for literature — or for love , for that matter . ’ |
| 9 | Er perhaps it is impossible to answer it in this forum but I think it remains an open question sir . |
| 10 | The wall is not in fact vertical though it is easy to misremember it as such , because it rises in three distinct layers of limestone , to heights of 6,900 , 8,500 and finally some 9,000 feet , with a filling of ice and snow on the slopes that divide one layer from the next . |
| 11 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 12 | But if it has that civil capability it is all too easy to turn it to less than peaceful purposes . |
| 13 | When you consider that we have a mortgage book of roughly £50 billion , you can see that it would be impossible to offer it to all our borrowers . |
| 14 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 15 | This particular eel ( I think ) has much to endear it to those of us that keep some of the more serious ‘ oddballs ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps I can persuade you that the life of a vigneronne has much to recommend it after all . ’ |
| 17 | And it should be possible to apply it to any available material , without the need of programmes specially constructed for the purpose . |
| 18 | She had it done cheap , promising to wear it in all the right places . |
| 19 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 20 | He goes , no , you 're not supposed to do it like that you 're supposed to get her on the floor and step on her head ! you 're not doing it right ! |
| 21 | Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that . |
| 22 | Cycling in you know , and of course because nobody else wanted the job , sometimes we were supposed to share it with another , and nearly everybody else , except me , would be too big you see . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not supposed to eat it like that , ’ said Gurder severely . |
| 24 | Secondly , the relationship with the credit firm means that , if the customer wants credit , then he is likely to get it from that particular firm . |
| 25 | You set the weight one sorry the weight , it 's probably it 's it 's hard to explain it like that , but you apply the decoder function F here F bracket to the particular tuple and you get a state J. So you set the weight for that particular state . |
| 26 | The acts , implying possession in one case , may be wholly inappropriate to prove it in another . |
| 27 | But I have not seen much evidence that it is really possible to do it on this scale . |
| 28 | With the Sim-Fix it is unnecessary to punch extra fixing points in the slate and the strap is quickly and easily nailed to the batten with three optional fixing points , making it possible to use it with any size of slate . |
| 29 | Not all approached it with such seriousness . |
| 30 | And it 's no good actually , it 's not good pulling it like that and pulling it away because it 'll still be there . |