Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 2 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 3 | My idea now is to get a type rating on the 700 , not to explore it as a journalistic exercise . |
| 4 | If it would be a decision not to offer it to a patient dependent on the NHS must be a decision about rationing of resources rather than about clinical need . |
| 5 | Democracy was demanded , and admitted , on the ground that it was unfair not to have it in a competitive society . |
| 6 | With his hold on the south complete within a year , William had both to confirm it as a long-term fact and reward his followers . |
| 7 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 8 | So what have you got to do to it now to make it into a ninety ? |
| 9 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 10 | This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind . |
| 11 | Were we then to convert it into a unitary system entirely under university control ? ’ |
| 12 | The laughter had subsided , the ladies were folding the coat and dress and were about to lay it on a tissue-papered bed in a cardboard box , when Agnes said , ‘ What size shoes does she take ? |
| 13 | It is also a real lesson in how to avoid the obvious without being freakish , how to start with the stimulus of a hot vegetable dish , how to vary the eternal purée of potatoes with your meat ( lacking chestnut flour we could try instead a purée of lentils or split peas ) , how to follow it with a fresh , bright , unexpected salad ( that excellent mixture of corn salad and beetroot — how often does one meet with it nowadays ? ) and since by that time most people would have had enough without embarking on cheese , de Pomiane is brave enough to leave it out . |
| 14 | Many paddling pools can also be used as sandpits , but once you 've filled your pool with sand , you 're unlikely to want to take all out again to make it into a paddling pool for the afternoon . |