Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question that should be asked at this point is not whether the West should intervene militarily , but what does it want out of such an exploit ? |
| 2 | ‘ Remember to let the feeling out , let it gush out like a fountain , but draw it back afterwards . |
| 3 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 4 | I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast . |
| 5 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 6 | Frau Nordern heaved up her brief-case and let it fall on to the desk with a satisfying , rather official thud . |
| 7 | So we 're talking about the sixty acre sixty hectares that are allocated for the rest of the Harrogate district and er I should like formal confirmation from Mr Allenby privately already that there is no question of any part of the York , Greater York area allocation being transferred into the rest of the district should it fall through for any purpose . |
| 8 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 9 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 10 | Right so we differentiate four X cubed minus X we get how does it tie up with what we 've got there ? |
| 11 | He played with a rubber washer that came drifting by , trying to make it spin around in the air in front of his nose . |
| 12 | For some moments Harry gazes at them in silence , slowly plucking the lefthand strap of his braces away from the shoulder , and letting it snap back against the shirt . |
| 13 | But till everybody , does that , does it carry on like that until everybody 's |
| 14 | Ca n't see it look up to anybody else . |
| 15 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 16 | There 's er a collar and a what they call a which is a protein tube and then it has various spikes at the end that make it stick on to the outside of the bacteria . |
| 17 | Ormanroyd familiar leggy run of his turns it back to Lewis , Speedy let it run on to Jochim . |
| 18 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 19 | ‘ So how did it work out for you ? ’ |
| 20 | Would it work out as minus four , I ca n't remember ? |
| 21 | He would have said , Did n't it work out with you and Fernando because of their baby ? or something like that . |
| 22 | How , how did it work out on the champion of champions night with having the the table show , the full table show that we cancelled when Danny came er how did it work er did it work out comfortably ? |
| 23 | That , then , is the theory — but how does it work out in practice ? |
| 24 | does it boil down , does it boil down to a lack of security to the fact that ? |
| 25 | … Oakeshott 's conservatism does not appeal to any sort of metaphysical or religious beliefs for sanction or support ; nor does it hark back to a more integrated and traditional form of society . |
| 26 | You 've got to watch that you see , did it revolve back on the children . |
| 27 | Minutes later eyewitnesses saw it spiral out of the sky and crash just thirty yards from the firm 's buildings . |
| 28 | As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop . |
| 29 | Then he began to sink , passing slowly through the deck , feeling it slide up through his body . |
| 30 | ‘ Is course relevant to functions and development of library service , how does it fit in with the needs of the employees who should attend ? |