Example sentences of "it a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If so , give it a little milk to keep it quiet . ’ |
| 2 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 3 | And when my father gives it a little thought he 'll realise it is now September and that my time off is likely to creep into next year , which will make a much longer period owing to me . ’ |
| 4 | I moved it a little way away . |
| 5 | erm , she made me bend my head and I could only bend it a little way and she could see the spasms |
| 6 | The immediate effect of the revenue enhancement however , brought with it a more than proportionate increase in costs across the board and a surplus deflated by approximately £100,000 . |
| 7 | They do it a half hour later or an hour later and if that holds , erm I think they usually , you know , it 's always at least an hour |
| 8 | Give it a few months , goes the cheery Tory argument . |
| 9 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 10 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 11 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 12 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
| 13 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 14 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 15 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 16 | The bistable will set or reset — try it a few times . |
| 17 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 18 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
| 19 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 20 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
| 21 | A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches . |
| 22 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |
| 23 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 24 | A few hundred real life words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch ; or was it a few thousand touched words on the time I had lunch , naked with Buffy Sainte-Marie ? |
| 25 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 26 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 27 | You can hear them from a long way now what you do is you sit them down and let them take up their own particular position , you can , if they 've got their medication their Ventilin or whatever , you can put it beside them , they will know if they need to take it or not , get them with the fresh air and let them take up their own position which is usually leaning forward so that it expands their lungs , talk to them about something different because sometimes well they 've got to think of what to answer you , it 's relaxing those tubes , now if they 're taking their medication and it does n't work within about five minutes get them to hospital , because the only people that really die with asthma are those that have taken medication and keep saying I 'll give it a few more minutes , give it a few more minutes and if they 're getting worse and worse they 're leaving it too long . |
| 28 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 29 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
| 30 | So Vecchi hi-tails it out to the sanatorium , hangs around until the great man and Rico leave then gives it a few more minutes before walking in and giving Connie another grilling . |