Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 2 | Do you realise that , when Lisa has it right |
| 3 | Gassendi accepts it too . |
| 4 | Huey drops it abruptly . |
| 5 | Ubiquitous , hare-brained , tumbleweed skitters across the road , sticking underneath the car until friction dissolves it away to nothing . |
| 6 | The North Sea wind chills it nicely , thank you very much . |
| 7 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 8 | SOLE GOES IT ALONE |
| 9 | I can , you , I can keep it for two week till Johnny wants it again , not this Wedn not this Wednesday , the following Wednesday . |
| 10 | Now that the camera is being made in Japan and some 400 Timex workers have lost their jobs , Nimslo says it actually received no taxpayers ' money . |
| 11 | And he ca n't get the note out of his pocket and his trousers are all stuck to his bum , and he ca n't get them out and he 's digging it looks like he 's digging out his pants he 's going he pulls it out and takes the envelope off nearly and the waves are coming at him and he goes to read it and the wind blows it away . |
| 12 | I got you lot going and the wind blows it away . |
| 13 | By 1871 a photograph shows it little changed . |
| 14 | He shouts something but the wind wrenches it away . |
| 15 | A drop of Drosera in the 30th dilution succussed with 20 strokes of the arm at each dilution , given as a dose to a child suffering from whooping-cough , endangers life , whereas , if the dilution phials are succussed only twice a , globule the size of a poppy seed moistened with the last dilution cures it readily . ’ |
| 16 | This is partly because structuralist poetics are part of a wider semiological venture , and partly because any distinctiveness ascribed to literature in structuralist thinking takes it right back to linguistics ; for the element that constitutes ‘ literature 's Being ’ and its ‘ very world ’ ( Barthes 1970 ) is simply language itself . |
| 17 | This is a peculiarly steep region , so much so in fact that the snow finds it more than usually difficult to stay where it has fallen ; there have been some sadly famous avalanches near Luz , the hamlets of Chéze and Saligos which you pass as you come in from the north both having been smothered and destroyed in their time . |
| 18 | The mind finds it much easier to work upon something than to cast around in a search . |
| 19 | However straightforward a fence may be , it is important that the horse jumps it correctly and does not simply ‘ hurdle ’ it . |
| 20 | As matter spirals into a black hole the enormous gravitational force pulls it asunder , and one consequence is the release of vast amounts of high-frequency energy ( eg , X-rays ) . |
| 21 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 22 | Anya drapes it carefully over the mirror . |
| 23 | Faramir , however , in the next chapter feels it more physically . |
| 24 | Thagard expresses it neatly : |
| 25 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 26 | Dr Rosalind Hursthouse puts it succinctly : ‘ Unmarried . |
| 27 | Brennan puts it clearly : |
| 28 | R. E. Kaske puts it extremely neatly by claiming only for the Miller 's Tale an " " implicit orientation " " towards " " a controlling set of [ moral and religious ] values " " creating a framework within which , ultimately , the actions within the tale and the actions of writing , telling and reading the tale , are to be evaluated . |
| 29 | Irenaeus puts it so splendidly : ‘ He became human that we might become divine . ’ |
| 30 | And gossip need n't be malevolent ; my Little Oxford Dictionary defines it simply as ‘ informal talk , esp about persons . ’ |