Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 2 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 3 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 4 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 5 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 6 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 7 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 8 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 9 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 10 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 11 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 12 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 13 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 14 | They had both been attending a seminar on judicial sentencing at a northern university , Berowne to open it formally with a brief speech , Dalgliesh to represent the police interest ; and they had travelled by rail in the same first class compartment . |
| 15 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 'll think I 'll just need to talk it over with a few people before we run it though . ’ |
| 17 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 18 | set to shoot it out for a good cause |
| 19 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 20 | A little extra pressure and I would be able to fish it out with the hypodermic needle I had poised ready . |
| 21 | It 's back in its box now , but it 's still pretty big — so I have to stick it in with the dirty washing . |
| 22 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 23 | Are you going to do it again for the seventy fifth ? |
| 24 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship . |
| 26 | ‘ I have always wanted to do it ever since the first time you took me to see it when I was young . ’ |
| 27 | If you know you can not deal with an upsetting confrontation , try to put it off for a short while until you feel calmer . |
| 28 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 29 | I 've had to put it together over the last three days . |
| 30 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |