Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nice complication then arises that to entertain the Copernican system seriously as a potentially true physical description , and subsequently to reject it , could be a more radical position than to accept it in the former sense . |
| 2 | This enabled us to calculate the ratio of cortex to ganglion cells for the region enclosed within the labelled sites and to compare it with the same ratio obtained for the rest of the retina . |
| 3 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 4 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 5 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 6 | With a less diversified business , the likelihood grows that , while he is satisfied with the service he gets , he will keep his business , at least for a period , with the same insurer , and place it through the same broker . |
| 7 | If you or I were to mix mud and water and place it in the same position it would fall off . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 9 | An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots . |
| 10 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 11 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 12 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |
| 13 | Look at it and then erm measured it I did I d and then I redid this one and put it in the same scale , |
| 14 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 15 | A qualified instructor will demonstrate how to use equipment properly , how to get the best from your body and enjoy it at the same time . |
| 16 | All the time Frodo and Sam are spinning another , and doing it with the same chronological overlapping . |
| 17 | I needed more of the thinner timber , but I ca n't fetch , chop and feed it at the same time . ’ |
| 18 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 19 | A statement that something does not happen both creates an event and abolishes it in the same act ( 1976k:21–2 ) . |
| 20 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 21 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 22 | Place the stem of a stick of celery in some dyed water and leave it for a few hours . |
| 23 | I do n't need it Friday night and leave it in the that . |
| 24 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 25 | In short , that they have appropriated a look , a style , and imbued it with no more than a vacuous narcissism , a barbaric bricolage mirroring a generation lost cynical ironic gestures and strategies . |
| 26 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 27 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 28 | Lisa struck a pose of melodramatic fervour and held it for a few seconds before slumping back in her seat . |
| 29 | The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements . |
| 30 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |