Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 2 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 3 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 4 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 5 | He went on pressing it until the starter engine ground to a halt . |
| 6 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 7 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 8 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 9 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 10 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 11 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 12 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 13 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 14 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 15 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 16 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 17 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 18 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
| 19 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 20 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 21 | You must be able to remove it quickly in case of fire , or some other emergency , so attach it to the window surround with double-sided tape , which can be easily ripped away or frequently replaced if you want to open up all the windows for a weekly blast of fresh air through the home . |
| 22 | The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage . |
| 23 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 24 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 25 | Simes how , do n't leave that lying around so put it on the side when you 've finished . |
| 26 | Green is a restful colour , so put it in a room where you want to relax |
| 27 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 28 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 29 | at one end put the thumb down put it on the wax and put the thumb over the top and pull pull it along . |
| 30 | And when you come back down put it in the oven . |