Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aims and operations are still too loosely formulated to allow it to be the cohesive force it could be . |
| 2 | ‘ Carrying a knife makes you feel big , you 'll eventually want to use it , ’ said one . |
| 3 | In fact , it closely resembled the constitution of the Consulate established in 1800 , and like its predecessor it would require little change to turn it into an Empire . |
| 4 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 5 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 6 | Being able to integrate such datasets digitally has made it possible to generate prospectivity maps in a study of carbonate-hosted buried mineral deposits in the north of England . |
| 7 | It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone . |
| 8 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 9 | But I mean I I expect , I mean even we had some left over e eventually you could sell them to our own members because they 'd all want to use it |
| 10 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 11 | Much of the machinery is in working order and I was so fascinated to see it actually in operation that I was late getting back to the bus ; driver sitting with engine running , and the eyes of every accusing fellow passenger upon me . |
| 12 | ‘ Every single drop of water going in to your house has been expensively treated to make it drinkable , so do you really want to spray it all over your car ? ’ said Kent Meters Marketing Director Terry Stoten . |
| 13 | I should only want to hush it up . |
| 14 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 15 | You 'll obviously want to make it , you do n't want to make it too short you 're going to have enough words to get yourself a good mark . |
| 16 | A female in a long pleated dress is leaping over two animals , the neck of one of which is heavily covered with barbotine dots , perhaps intended to identify it as a leopard . |
| 17 | it 's a fabulous aeroplane , and this excercise only goes to prove it |
| 18 | his upbringing , his culture had all conduced to foster it . |
| 19 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 20 | Trouble is she only wants to buy it off you cheaply you see , for |
| 21 | I thought it might be drugged so I only pretended to drink it , putting the cup to my lips and setting it down again full after an interval . |
| 22 | There are a couple of hills beyond the A438 if you fancy , but the road is a convenient enough place to call it quits . |
| 23 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 24 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
| 25 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 26 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 27 | She remembered , too , Canon Wheeler 's unexpected appearance at Ian 's attic office when he had perhaps expected to find it empty . |
| 28 | Erm I only want to say it is very important that we must do nothing to sort of prejudice the outcome of the consideration of the planning application environment cases sub committee , erm at a later erm stage . |
| 29 | I only want to taste it |
| 30 | Oh you never know you might win that , I only want to win it cos . |