Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] it [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rarely happens but if the same ferret continues to do this it is advisable to discard it or use it only as a muzzled ferret . |
| 2 | Do it alone on a sheet of paper before the negotiation , or do it together on a flip chart or white board during the negotiation . |
| 3 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 4 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 5 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 6 | I had another cup and watched her take the rollers out of her hair and comb it carefully into a high , curly pompadour . |
| 7 | The Eurythmics song finishes and you put a foot on the ghetto-blaster 's power cable and drag it smartly across the bathroom tiles , pulling the lead from the back of the machine . |
| 8 | The resource person is able to suggest a more precise and expressive use of vocabulary and structure to help him to make his speech more idiomatic and bring it closer to the native speaker 's use of the language . |
| 9 | If the fish is whole , and the fishmonger has done the decent thing — removed the guts and gills , which would taint it during cooking — all you need do is immerse the beast in any container large enough to hold it ( ideally a fish kettle ) , cover it with cold water and bring it gently to the boil . |
| 10 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 11 | Take a small piece of glass , lay a circle of acrylic sealant or putty around the edges , and press it firmly to the floor , putty side down . |
| 12 | Because the money lenders were usually Brahmis , the effect of colonialism was to strengthen the caste system and place it firmly on a class basis . |
| 13 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 14 | Disconnect the basin waste , lift the basin from its brackets or pedestal ( or both ) , and place it upside-down on the floor . |
| 15 | Lying on your side , bend your right leg and support it just below the knee with your hand . |
| 16 | Make a custard in the ordinary way , but add 1 cupful of fresh marigold petals , beaten , to 600ml/1 pint/2½ cups of milk and heat it gently with the remainder of the custard ingredients . |
| 17 | I folded it up and put it away in a small carved wooden box in which I kept other trinkets and treasures of no significance to anyone except myself . |
| 18 | With that thought , she returned the cuttings to their envelope and put it away in a drawer of her desk . |
| 19 | if I hang on to that and put it away in the garage and hang on to the key so I can get the right , the right lock |
| 20 | right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ? |
| 21 | Obviously you ca n't just take a vocal line from some traditional Japanese album and put it straight into a heavy metal song because it 's not going to work ! |
| 22 | of the label , okay so that we can actually and put it actually in the bag , so that when these things go off as they would do to their to the the various specialists who actually know more about pottery know more about bones and can do a more detailed analysis , still know where they 're from . |
| 23 | Who 's had spaghetti and put it all over the floor ? . |
| 24 | Snorting angrily , he picked it up and read it aloud in a contemptuous voice : " Shareholders demand immediate explanation why production tonnage down last month . |
| 25 | Tie the bag at the top , leaving a tiny gap , and lie it flat on a baking sheet or roasting pan . |
| 26 | They could gather food with the beak-like premaxillae , manipulate it with the large tongue ( possession of which is suggested by the extensive hyoid bones in the throat ) and crop and slice it efficiently with the powerful jaws . |
| 27 | Take a thin-bladed knife and run it closely between the flesh and the rind until they separate . |
| 28 | The eye has to jump ahead to the source marker , or register it peripherally , and link it correctly to the preceding text . |
| 29 | You place the P carriage on the ribber bed to the left of the knitting and pass it across to the right . |
| 30 | No it kee keep going with the arrows and get it just behind the letter you wan na delete , keep going , keep going go keep going , keep going and again now delete , backspace |