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Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged .
2	A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company .
3	Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel .
4	‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew .
5	We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport .
6	Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’
7	If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine .
8	As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over .
9	But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation .
10	Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue .
11	Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins .
12	For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in .
13	that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought .
14	so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale
15	We gently lowered it to the floor .
16	Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ .
17	Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem .
18	But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year .
19	Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea .
20	You must be able to remove it quickly in case of fire , or some other emergency , so attach it to the window surround with double-sided tape , which can be easily ripped away or frequently replaced if you want to open up all the windows for a weekly blast of fresh air through the home .
21	The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage .
22	‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it .
23	If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring .
24	Simes how , do n't leave that lying around so put it on the side when you 've finished .
25	Green is a restful colour , so put it in a room where you want to relax
26	Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it .
27	You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller .
28	In respect of the foregoing it must be understood that the interpretation put upon the word ‘ selfishness ’ in this book is one which does not necessarily brand it as a vice .
29	He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him .
30	The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality .