Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , it is embodied in all the ISAs of capitalist society , so that we learn it in the course of learning what it is to be a parent , a democrat , a black , a steelworker , or a councillor . |
| 2 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 3 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 4 | It should actually have a clip so that you stick it in your inside pocket |
| 5 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |
| 6 | They gave me food with stones and yak dung , but it was still not enough and they put it in a urine container . |
| 7 | The change of term was not quick enough and he covered it with a grandiose sweep of his hand which nearly knocked over the Doctor 's goblet . |
| 8 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 9 | It probably did n't matter much if you did it in front of your friends . |
| 10 | Only if you want it to . |
| 11 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 12 | A lot I think cos this this bit 's a quarter is n't it and we 'd get that 'd be enough if we cut it into quarters how many quarters would we get ? |
| 13 | ‘ So if we rebuilt it in a more palatial style we could make a real killing when we sold it . |
| 14 | So if you need it in a hurry it can be a problem . |
| 15 | So if you want it to beco to be a third you 've still got to make it an E and call it a double flat . |
| 16 | So if you multiply it by six and it 's still raised to the power . |
| 17 | ‘ Perfectly correct , but the thing stores energy as well as transmitting it , so if he gets it to where he 's going , we 're in serious trouble . ’ |
| 18 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 19 | Yeah in the the number on the bottom is bigger but that just means you 've got to share it out between more people so do you get more or less if you share it between more people ? |
| 20 | especially if we take it into German tomorrow |
| 21 | Anyway I think it might be a giggle , especially if we keep it to ourselves . |
| 22 | Well especially if you put it in your high interest . |
| 23 | Quoting extensively from a textbook in a PhD thesis , for example ( especially if you treat it as an authority rather than as something for critical comment ) is likely to give the wrong impression : that you are a beginner rather than an expert in your subject . |
| 24 | Then I got my seventy odd and she got another week 's money and we just put it all together and we split it down the middle said right there 's your half , there 's mine |
| 25 | It may be apposite to consider that a corporate stand on under-fives and special needs is now a moral imperative and that we should take seriously the clarion calls of Warnock and the Select Committee , not only because we owe it to children and their families , but also because |
| 26 | They do n't , once they 're empty they do n't take long till they sell it over there and there |
| 27 | But that was only after we had it for about thirty years or , or more . |
| 28 | The Intifada was perhaps the most convincing refutation ever of the time- honoured , complacent dogma that ‘ the status quo can last as long as we want it to . ’ |
| 29 | If the relatives are able to go to the mortuary or viewing room and be with the person who has died for as long as they feel it to be necessary , then they are more able to start absorbing the fact of their loved one 's death , because again they have the evidence in front of them . |
| 30 | ‘ There are a hundred ways a firm can get rid of pollution into the river , ’ said an experienced officer , ‘ so long as they do it at the right time . ’ |