Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 2 | They had driven over 1,700 miles in twenty-seven and a half hours , including frontier stops , only to miss it by five minutes . |
| 3 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 4 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 5 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 6 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 7 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 8 | So far as talking is concerned , they can only do it to each other . |
| 9 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 10 | But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ? |
| 11 | Well he 's only put it on one side . |
| 12 | She 'll only spend it on more booze and meths but I do n't care . |
| 13 | You can only swap it for nice things . |
| 14 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 15 | Peter not only hears it on this occasion but several times in the future , as the book of Acts shows . |
| 16 | It is generally best to leave maintenance and repairs of central heating boilers to an expert service engineer , and to have your system serviced at least annually to keep it in good condition . |
| 17 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 18 | Although Weinberger opposed it , he did not often do so with force : partly because , it seemed to him , nobody was foolish enough to propose it with much vehemence . |
| 19 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 20 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 21 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 22 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 23 | Like , all their films came , like Alex 's film of er Spain empties the camera basically puts it in this pile they keep in a drawer somewhere of films , okay ? |
| 24 | And therefore your brain was trying to naturally put it into some context but it did n't go into any context so it was difficult |
| 25 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 26 | And it shot it went down shot it through this barrel and inside was hydrogen gas and as it went through |
| 27 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 28 | Of course , the Bill includes provisions to allow the assigned band to be changed if the value of the property changes sufficiently to take it into another band . |
| 29 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 30 | The picture of settlement development in the landscape , then , is a dynamic picture of great complexity , great age and constant change , but we only see it at one time . |