Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto .
32 This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time .
33 ‘ If you want to throw up , at least you can just do it over the side . ’
34 She had better not invest it in the stock market , because she could n't afford to lose a penny and there was no such thing as a safe share .
35 ‘ We would normally do it on the day she moves in . ’
36 ‘ But I made a decision that I would not do it beyond the age of 35 , and then I would return to try to make a contribution . ’
37 The British Museum might be glad of the opportunity to study your find , so why not send it to the Keeper of Coins and Medals , who will quickly return it with his comments ?
38 You may not feel it at the moment because I 've blocked your mind from the pain .
39 You may not feel it in the shop , or on our first few runs .
40 My source tells me : ‘ The firemen were very helpful and attempted to remove the offending smoke sensor but could not isolate it from the system so the demonstration continued with shorter cooking times and lower temperatures to reduce the flames .
41 She fell to her knees by the head of her youngest son , cradled it , yet did not lift it from the snow .
42 The Principle of Partial Inverses shows that FRF ′ R ’ does not affect a piece like FL because F does not carry it into the overlap region , hence it is unaffected by R , then restored by F ’ and again left unaffected by R ′ .
43 But the disparity lies less in tone than in technique : like rather a lot of modern movies , Bye Bye Blues lacks the capacity to formulate its material rather than just present it to the audience and leave them to do the rest .
44 I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar .
45 Since we ca n't just purchase it from the chemist , we have to manufacture our own incentive .
46 Cos he 's gon na just divide it by the number and it 's it 's
47 I 'll just stick it in the freezer and he can have it next week .
48 The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore .
49 You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay .
50 Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans .
51 In fact the Germans were firing into the air , although we did not realize it at the time , so there were no casualties .
52 It is good mining practice that if one is to work all the mine that has already been developed — and £60 billion has been spent in its development — one does not work it in the advance , but in the retreat .
53 That is true , but it does not issue in the conclusion that we do not ordinarily have and use the given conception of a causal circumstance , or that we could not use it in the confirmation of causal hypotheses .
54 In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on .
55 England had a target of 240 in 140 minutes , but could not meet it in the end , and as a result the Test was drawn .
56 That way , when you bust your board , you do n't just toss it in the garbage .
57 ‘ Could n't you just drop it over the edge ? ’ suggested Patrick .
58 When using this fin elastic , thread it up through the feeder as usual , but do not take it through the tape-up spring ( the antennae at the end of the tension wire ) .
59 Often there is no such work to be had , but if there is , the asylum seekers should not take it at the expense of people already here .
60 She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that .
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