Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 3 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | On second thoughts I think it best to put it back in the old oak chest . |
| 8 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 9 | No afterwards she 's going to switch it on in the common room . |
| 10 | Another advantage is that a hooked bream can be persuaded — with a little not-too-gentle pulling and guidance — to fight it out in the shallower water and therefore not disturb the remainder of the feeding shoal . |
| 11 | It is difficult to appreciate it now in the liberated 80's , but at the time the worst thing an unmarried girl could do was get pregnant , and the worst news a mother could hear from her daughter was , ‘ I 'm going to have a baby ! ’ |
| 12 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Ashdown will give warning tomorrow , in two television interviews and in his party 's last election broadcast , that an attempt by either Labour or Tories to go it alone in a hung Parliament would end in disaster . |
| 14 | Although elite theorists have agreed upon the importance of empirically tested research , and their ability to carry it out in a value-free way , in fact this stream of analysis has always been associated with authors who take strong value positions . |
| 15 | Hundreds of pounds ? it 's such an important issue , we ought to have it out in the open , and let's tell the taxpayers what these people say |
| 16 | ‘ It will be a relief to have it out in the open and it will stop all the questions I have been getting about my future , ’ said the 21year-old Nottingham Forest player . |
| 17 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |