Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 2 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 3 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 4 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 5 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 6 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 7 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 8 | But that line is a difficult one to draw , and some traders or lenders may inadvertently draw it in the wrong place . |
| 9 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 10 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 11 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 12 | Its curly conker-red coat is thick enough to protect it against the cold and wet but becomes smooth and sleek in warmer weather . |
| 13 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 14 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 15 | Erm , what they need to be able to do is just be able to gently lead it along the right tunnel |
| 16 | And they only do it to the angry ones . |
| 17 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 18 | The latter is a recognized field of work in its own right and some people in it might be surprised to find themselves called public relations operators , but the speciality derives from public relations and the counselling , reconciliatory and persuasive nature of the work comfortably fits it within the broader spectrum of public relations practice . |
| 19 | A and this time this this just this time just raise it to the one third and see if you get the same answer , to check it is the cube root . |
| 20 | Step 2 CAPTION — To add an icon just drag it onto the right-hand set of icons . |
| 21 | Step 1 CAPTION — To delete an icon just drag it off the right-hand set of icons . |
| 22 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 23 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 24 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 25 | He just put it to the poor bastard . |
| 26 | Just put it by the back door . |
| 27 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 28 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 29 | In non-metropolitan England and Wales and in Scotland , housing is allocated to the districts , thus separating it from the personal social services . |
| 30 | For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific . |