Example sentences of "it [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 2 | Dreaming Lee took to this camera immediately and held it delicately and lifted the front-flap and looked through it in order to focus on something and take a picture of it . |
| 3 | For active hunting , a heavy shell must be something of a handicap and some carnivorous molluscs have taken to a faster if riskier life by doing without it altogether and reverting to the life-style of their flatworm-like ancestors . |
| 4 | But even then , they can not avoid it altogether and after a while , their digestions can no longer tolerate it . |
| 5 | And then they used to go with their slate and and they knew it altogether and then the counter turns and turns like that . |
| 6 | This could either involve removing it altogether and blocking up the space with bricks and mortar , or simply locking it and putting furniture against it on both sides . |
| 7 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 8 | The record needs to be put straight on certain issues , and women animators are in a position to do it powerfully and poignantly . |
| 9 | The trick is to do it little and often — notice what they do in the fast food chains , ’ Davies says . |
| 10 | You sprinkle it on and then cut the pie into pieces . ’ |
| 11 | So she 'd try it on and it would n't fit . |
| 12 | I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined . |
| 13 | Tolkien never finished the Kay of Leithian , though he worked at it on and off far seven years , composing at least two versions of the poem in more than four thousand lines of octosyllabic couplets . |
| 14 | Forsyth forced a corner on the left , Beagrie swung the ball towards the near post , Adams nodded it on and Wise forced in England 's first goal at the far post . |
| 15 | Just catch some unsuspecting psychopathic bee , strap it on and watch it go . |
| 16 | He put it on and leant back against Lee . |
| 17 | We decided to keep it on and sub-let it as the rent was so low . ’ |
| 18 | The ‘ cure ’ to all pullers , we are frequently told , is to let the horse gallop , and when it is tired to push it on and on and on ! |
| 19 | But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room . |
| 20 | He plonked it on and got his first four . |
| 21 | Well we knocked it on and made four but poor old Tommy had a disaster . |
| 22 | He began to fiddle with the hat , made to put it on and then changed his mind . |
| 23 | Nails said , towards the kitchen door , ‘ I 'm goin' out , ’ picked up a leather jacket that lay on the floor , shrugged it on and opened the door again . |
| 24 | Then , putting it on and pulling the collar tight about her throat , she lit the candle that was standing in a holder on her bedside table , and went quietly out and along the corridor to the kitchen , through it and into the scullery , where they had a running tap above a shallow stone sink . |
| 25 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 26 | He could switch it on and off like central heating . |
| 27 | She had put it on and taken it off three times ; it now lay on the chair beside her . |
| 28 | Zach put it on and when the jacket was done up it looked as if he was wearing a proper dress shirt . |
| 29 | This is the type of garment that always looks good as soon as you put it on and makes you feel comfortable and at ease , whatever the occasion . |
| 30 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |