Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] it in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 3 | I fully appreciate and feel the force of the narrowness of the distinctions which are taken between what is admissible and what is not admissible , but the exception presently proposed is so extensive that I do not feel able to support it in the present state of our knowledge of its practical results in this jurisdiction . |
| 4 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 5 | He smiled and opened it , surprised to find it in the original Mandarin . |
| 6 | But even that performance is only sufficient to put it in the middle ranking of the world 's stock markets . |