Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 2 | So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator . |
| 3 | But that line is a difficult one to draw , and some traders or lenders may inadvertently draw it in the wrong place . |
| 4 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 5 | Erm , what they need to be able to do is just be able to gently lead it along the right tunnel |
| 6 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 7 | A principal sea-side town had become a large and squalid town by the sea ; not only did fashion begin to desert it by the later 1820s , but medical opinion could no longer treat it with the blind enthusiasm of earlier decades . |
| 8 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 9 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 10 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
| 11 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 12 | It did not seem to me , in that incomplete version , quite to come off , and I still do not regard it among the successful poems . |
| 13 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
| 14 | But last night they admitted for the first time that Mr Mellor did not refer it to the then Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 15 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 16 | He did not realize it in the Sixties , nor the Seventies . |
| 17 | And while Robert Wilson admits that the appeal of managing his own company could become a reality one day , he does not envisage it in the near future . |
| 18 | Or if you 're not in a position to make a decision , why not suggest it to the woolly mammoth ? |
| 19 | If we baldly declare the Bible world-picture and do not interpret it to the modern world in such a way as to make it intelligible , we are useless . |
| 20 | For instance , Wordsworth 's famous poem ‘ My heart leaps up ’ is in 6/8 metre , and one could quite easily fit it to the 6/8 tune of ‘ Jack and Jill ’ : Of course , the result is horrific . |
| 21 | For its part , the trial does not test factual accuracy alone and does not test it by the same method as that employed by the police in their own investigation . |
| 22 | Do you just have it at the same time ? |
| 23 | The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present . |
| 24 | That position had been urged in amicus briefs filed by the French Republic and ( less emphatically ) by the Federal Republic of Germany , although the petitioners who had taken this position in the lower courts did not maintain it in the Supreme Court . |
| 25 | In the meanwhile , if we 're going to use the B/R grant pretty soon , can I just leave it in the current account ? |
| 26 | well you 've got to snip it first , have n't you , you 've got to fucking snip it with the long hairs first , the old cut throat . |
| 27 | The Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) survived the abolition of the Greater London Council , but its control by Labour did not endear it to the Conservative government . |
| 28 | Thank you we 'll just put it on the little table here , look for a bit until it 's time to put it on . |
| 29 | Mr Hitchens said : ‘ We did not get it from the Labour party . ’ |
| 30 | The report dated 27th June , 1857 , was forwarded by Buckler to Hall , who said he did not receive it until the following Monday evening , 29th June . |