Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it changed radically as a subject and as an activity ? |
| 2 | ‘ Pity it stares out at a row of other houses . ’ |
| 3 | One might expect it to lead only to a rather vague pantheism which could make no real place either for religious institutions or for specific doctrines and formulations . |
| 4 | Ace opened the door just wide enough for the pair to enter , and slammed it shut just as a brick arced over from the darkened bushes . |
| 5 | Well I know it is and er I hope it comes over in a genuine way . |
| 6 | ‘ Remember to let the feeling out , let it gush out like a fountain , but draw it back afterwards . |
| 7 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 8 | He could n't believe it went ahead at a time when the firm was in financial trouble . |
| 9 | Wind it up and watch it shoot up like a dirty old man 's dick at the sight of a Madonna book . |
| 10 | It 's just good to hear it said once in a while ! |
| 11 | Blundering mechanics had got it mixed up with an identical model parked next to it in the workshop . |
| 12 | We have seen a shift from the utopianism of the 1960s to a culture of nostalgia and , as with the more dystopian elements in postmodernism , the exhibition and the books which accompany it look backward in a search for appearances as if they were compensatory fantasies substituting for a forgotten dream . |
| 13 | It was n't difficult to imagine it wriggling out of a cigar-shaped object on Wimbledon Common . |
| 14 | If you get through that you 've got to give the balloon a good hard squirt to make it burn , and if you do make it burn it goes up with a hell of a whoomph and you 've still got to get away . ’ |
| 15 | You 've got ta put an offer in and pay it so much a month have n't you or something and , and , and get it paid off over a period of time ? |
| 16 | Should the next level of output quality be needed it 's just a matter of taking the disk to the nearest bureau service and getting it run out on a typesetter . |
| 17 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 18 | The French government actually wants this archaically hide-bound professional body to reform itself and become more competitive , but is expecting it to come up with a solution itself . |
| 19 | This may not prove to be a serious problem , but having it happen twice in a short period of time makes me wonder . |
| 20 | You just walked back to your position trying to look unconcerned and got your clap from the crowd : I could feel this smile on my face , feel it spreading out to a grin . |
| 21 | He affected a limp because one leg was ‘ full of shrapnel ’ ( he broke it falling downstairs during a party ) . |
| 22 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |
| 23 | Jasper went , was gone it seemed only for a minute , came back to say that they would be welcome . |
| 24 | He saw it slipping around in a pool and then dividing into drops that ran apart . |
| 25 | I saw it pissing off with an apprentice on the way down to the start at Chester . |
| 26 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 27 | Corbett rose from his stool and sent it flying back with a crash . |
| 28 | He drew deeply on his cigarette then sent it spinning away with a flick of his fingers . |
| 29 | Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe . |
| 30 | People begin to become aware of this , and their thoughts and feelings gradually enable it to build up into a powerful tribal god . |