Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [conj] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grey day in a cold April , one of those winter's-end days when the land looks exhausted and worn and it seems like all the colour is gone from the world . |
| 2 | Keep the exhaust port low and attack when it swoops down to bomb you . |
| 3 | It can be snorted'' or injected but it does not vaporise easily and is not suitable for inhaling or smoking . |
| 4 | That is quite a lot ; but why be more ambitious and say that it makes the place of mind in Nature more intelligible to us ? |
| 5 | The adventure will become increasingly complex , deadly and demanding as it progresses . |
| 6 | Zande thus believe this power to be sex-linked and consider that it increases with age : children may be capable of bewitching , but the power is weakly developed in them ; in mature adults it is more strongly realized . |
| 7 | Of course , we may call our doubt ‘ total doubt ’ or charge it with being unbelief , but only if our purpose is to stop doubt short and see that it does not become unbelief . |
| 8 | I have been advised to leave it alone and see if it gets better . |
| 9 | Another avenue of enjoyable information-seeking — sadly , not as well-known and patronized as it deserves to be — is the programme of private gardens opened in aid of various charities like the Gardeners ' Benevolent Fund , from whom you can obtain a county-by-county week-by-week guide giving details of location , times of opening and points of interest . |
| 10 | Although such characteristics probably do play some secondary role , we find this interpretation unconvincing and suspect that it stems from a need to make a connection with what are perceived as the relatively more ‘ attractive ’ features of psychosis , rather than with those emphasised in descriptions of schizophrenia , a concept that has taken on almost entirely negative connotations . |
| 11 | There is a particularly fine example in the last pas de deux of La Fille Mal Gardée where Lise and Colas weave themselves into an embrace which is so tender , gentle and loving that it arrives at the end of a phrase as the most natural thing in the world . |
| 12 | And then we are surprised and upset when it fails to do so . |