Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clutterbuck ceased to work the mill during the latter half of the 1840s , for by 1847 it had been leased to a paper-maker , Frederick Wiggins , who apparently only operated it for a few years . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've only just made it before the final melt . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only just got it in the washing machine . |
| 4 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 5 | Well I 'd only just brought it in the kitchen actually . |
| 6 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 7 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 8 | He 'd just about made it by the time Private Boyd had strapped my gun belt on and issued me with a plastic face visor which fitted with adjustable straps at the back . |
| 9 | But many people wondered why Mr Peairs had used quite so powerful a weapon , and why he had not simply fired it into the air ; or why , living as he did in a relatively safe middle-class suburb , he had been so scared . |
| 10 | To John Baxter this was rather ‘ solemn mock-Soviet montage ’ but others have more rightly seen it as a very effective expression of that energy which ordinary people had in abundance but which the America of 1934 so tragically left untapped . |
| 11 | The Soviet defence minister , seeking to justify the action , claimed that organised attempts were being made to establish a ‘ dictatorship of the bourgeois type ’ in the area ; the Lithuanian president , Vytautas Landsbergis , saw the conflict as a result of the ‘ fifty-one year confrontation between Lithuania and the USSR ’ , and the Russian president , Boris Yel'tsin , more forthrightly described it as an ‘ offensive against democracy ’ . |
| 12 | The pater gives her fifty pounds a year as a dress allowance and she has nearly always spent it by the end of the first month . |
| 13 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 14 | ‘ I know what a slow comfortable screw is , Francis , ’ said Jay in her best Mae West , ‘ but I ai n't never done it against a wall . ’ |
| 15 | Startled , Jess almost dropped the book , then hastily replaced it on the shelf . |
| 16 | Some weeks after Brezhnev 's initiative a Soviet statement quite explicitly linked it with the new American ’ arc of crisis ‘ strategy . ’ |
| 17 | And when the businessman er realized he very generously sold it to the Trust er I believe the same I do n't know , I believe it was the same . |
| 18 | She has certainly not privatized it from the Constitution , for all Michael Heseltine 's complaints . |
| 19 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 20 | A bit tricky under the circumstances , although I 've never actually done it with a raving loony . |
| 21 | I 've never never done it in the winter . |