Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 3 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 4 | Ten teams took part in the first race in 1975 , and they all enjoyed themselves so they thought they would do it again the following year . |
| 5 | Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it . |
| 6 | Oh Gabriel , Gabriel , you 've got it completely the wrong way rou … ’ |
| 7 | Secure the drive with at least four screws and make sure that if you mount it horizontally the printed circuit board is at the bottom . |
| 8 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 9 | Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question |
| 10 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 11 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
| 12 | As someone who has to ask occasionally for a care package for an individual , do I take it then the penultimate paragraph that this is the planning , you know , how you 're going to produce a care package for an individual , this is what you refer to in the planning system , and that you 're getting together with Social Services to get this care package together ? |
| 13 | Lib Dem hopes pinned on Paul Tyler , who won the old Bodmin constituency with a majority of just nine in 1974 , but lost it later the same year . |
| 14 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
| 15 | In debating it today the Labour Conference should focus not on its tactical advantages but on the kind of political system it wishes to see . |
| 16 | ‘ All in all , I 'd have to call it possibly the worst morning in my entire athletics career , ’ grimaced Dick . |
| 17 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 18 | Yes , fifty given it exactly the same way . |
| 19 | In fact subjects generally found it relatively easy to understand the rating required and found no difficulty in using it thus the general conclusion from this study is that drivers do report fluctuating levels of subjective risk . |
| 20 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 21 | Anyway , it was good fun , so we did it again the next year . |
| 22 | Kent County Council 's real plant was for not just 150 acres of development , but for 647 acres covering the entire site , making it potentially the largest business park in England — decimating the largely rural nature of the locality , with an eventual coverage of 5 million square feet — or the equivalent area of 100 of the largest supermarkets . |
| 23 | ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process . |
| 24 | Turn the right side ( smooth side of knitting ) to the inside and fold it so the two side edges of the knitting can be sewn together to make a tube . |
| 25 | As Ford himself put it later the imperial presidency had been replaced by an , ‘ imperilled presidency ’ . |
| 26 | If the client can not afford it then the sensible way to proceed would be to continue to press the insurers to form a view on liability . |
| 27 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 28 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |
| 29 | No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look . |
| 30 | This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light . |