Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 2 | Having thus identified the right way to do the job and explained why it was not practically possible for Owen to adopt it , they then proceed to attack the substance of his proposal . |
| 3 | For example , while the /r/ of person is pronounced ( as it would be in JC ) [ P15 ] , the speaker has also pronounced /r/ in mother , where it is less usual for Jamaicans to pronounce it , and at the end of Jamaica , where it does not occur historically at all . |
| 4 | ‘ Singularly foolish of Mother to leave it lying around . ’ |
| 5 | As you become interested in film acting it is likely that you will also become interested in film making , for the actor 's work depends so much on the technical decisions of the director and editor . |
| 6 | But we have to be careful to try to understand what steps are proper in order to keep it at bay . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been Framed ’ is a show where people that have filmed something funny on video sent it in and can win money if the audience thinks its very funny . |
| 8 | For whites , the night-shift is the least desirable and , as a result , many textile firms are dependent on Pakistanis to work it . |
| 9 | But maybe he did see Rosa run heavily for the door of her home ; maybe he was one of the men in the cafe who knew , who corroborated Tommaso 's insult later with their laughter , and made it impossible for Davide to ignore it and fail to issue his challenge . |
| 10 | Even the most honest of men find it surprisingly easy , through the film of time , to recall their own actions quite differently from the way in which objective evidence makes it clear they in fact occurred . |
| 11 | Tha that 's more what , the er sticking up hair does it . |
| 12 | Pinot Noir , Burgundy 's top red grape , is less willing to travel and has not been entirely amenable to efforts to tame it in Australia . |
| 13 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 14 | Some parents are wholly negative towards their children 's use of Creole , but some are mainly concerned that young children should not use Creole , and are more relaxed about teenagers speaking it . |
| 15 | While this was also costly in staff time it was seen as a worthwhile investment . |
| 16 | Because of a phobia about noise , which was one of his several rather neurotic characteristics , he had his study , as we all know , lined with cork to insulate it . |
| 17 | There is alot of talent in this town and it is good for people to hear it . |
| 18 | The war 's momentum was too great for George to stop it quickly , but when he said in his speech ‘ I glory in the name of Briton ’ he was stressing the fact that , unlike George I and George II , he had been born and brought up in Britain , possessed an overseas empire to be proud of , and saw no need to pay particular attention to the problems of Hanover . |
| 19 | But now that we 're getting or going to get presumably more involved in union matters it might be advantageous if we could have a minute taker . |
| 20 | Some common elements , like drag and drop and point and click , have already found their way into most GUIs , and those involved in Galileo say it would be possible to get things up and running within a matter of weeks once agreement has been reached . |
| 21 | For this to happen we need those who are actively involved in terrorism to reject it . |
| 22 | His writings prior to departure make it abundantly clear that the image of the USSR firmly implanted in his mind was that of a country in full post-revolutionary expansion engaged in the construction of a new society , a new culture and a new man , a country in which social relations were no longer based on human exploitation , and in which the deathly oppression of an exploiting class had been eradicated . |
| 23 | I , I , that , that is the answer 's in the negative , we 're not setting up those posts or funding them today , but they 've enabled us , they 've prompted us to carry out a revue , I think , I was n't present at budget review it . |
| 24 | It belongs to German nature to present oneself as un-German : a tendency to cosmopolitanism , to undermine the sense of nationhood are inseparable from the essence of German nationality ; the idea that one must lose one 's Germanness as much as possible in order to find it , that any restriction to the purely German is felt to be barbaric . |
| 25 | If she heard laughter that was n't there it was not her ears but her brain which was at fault , and she wished to preserve her experience intact in order to present it freshly to the specialist whom she intended to consult when her holiday was over . |
| 26 | She knew that for some reason it was important for Jasper to have it from her . |
| 27 | When Frodo passes it to Gandalf so that its identity can be confirmed , ‘ It felt suddenly very heavy , as if either it or Frodo himself was in some way reluctant for Gandalf to touch it ’ ( I , 58 , my italics ) . |
| 28 | We ran short of numbers to do it if you like , from seven thirty to twelve initially , in terms of the original count and the original people when they 'd finished their count . |
| 29 | And then the bucket too which has been kept full of water to keep it from expanding and leaking which otherwise it would do . |
| 30 | The organisation which is gifted with intelligence shows it by arranging its actions on a certain plan … . |