Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his speech — or rather sought to make it — against a barrage of noise and calls to resign from the Opposition and was listened to in stony silence by the Government benches . |
| 2 | This rule adds a consideration to those already discussed as being relevant to the scope of Ord. 53 , namely whether the High Court ( which hears AJRs ) or the alternative forum is more expert in dealing with the type of issue in question or better equipped to resolve it . |
| 3 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
| 4 | Life offered , or soon beg to lay it down , |
| 5 | People who mix old and new oil or just keep topping it up are sacrificing the good oil for the bad . |
| 6 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 7 | I certainly would n't bother to test it or even dare to test it now . |
| 8 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 9 | Many hallucinated that they were shrinking or else expanding to fill it . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 11 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 12 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 13 | Fortunately no-one was seriously hurt and no inmate escaped but the risk of trouble had been spotted and little done to stop it . |
| 14 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 15 | It is probably best to acknowledge the barrier and so seek to make it into part of the perceptual bubble . |
| 16 | We want to believe something and so get to believe it . |
| 17 | I was bored with it long ago , and so relieved to know it is really done at last . ’ ) |
| 18 | Green gave an interesting account of how this fine bird suffered at the hands of the sheep farmers who had lost lambs and so had to destroy it . |
| 19 | The inside is a mess , even though he 's come to look on it as his only home and so tries to keep it straight . |
| 20 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 21 | This can happen when the couple 's blood is too similar and the mother 's immune system fails to recognise a baby and so fails to protect it . |
| 22 | All I ask is to be left to get on with my work , and enough support to make it possible . |
| 23 | The Government talk about the enlargement of the Community and apparently have included it as one of their objectives for the British presidency next year . |
| 24 | Because they are doing the most unnatural thing in the world , which everyone tells them is perfectly natural , in order that little children should all sit down quiet and good in one place and learn to take the world for granted , and not attempt to change it . |
| 25 | It was not a way of life he would have considered particularly pious ; to be content with it , and not strain to improve it , he would not have considered unmanly or unadventurous . |
| 26 | We ca n't pick go round Norwood Gardens and not want to do it . |
| 27 | The grantee was morally a custodian of the land , and not entitled to use it for his own purposes . |
| 28 | It was notable that , in his introductory speech , the Home Secretary devoted very little time to the content of the Bill and scarcely sought to justify it . |
| 29 | Campbell suggests that this is due to their own recognition , as vulnerable women , of the problem of male violence and thus wish to have it controlled . |
| 30 | Do not say ‘ Oh I must get around to phoning Fred or Millie ’ and just keep putting it off . |