Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 3 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 4 | IN A POEM called History Peter Porter piles a number of state crimes — reminiscent of those attributed to the Stasi — on top of one another in a seemingly solid pillar of evidence , only to explode it in the last line with the simple but logical detonation : ‘ Their story will not be told . ’ |
| 5 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 6 | So just watch it after the first dose that evening , if you g Especially if you get out of bed to have a wee . |
| 7 | Not too long — I generally leave it to the last minute . |
| 8 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 9 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 10 | A Country Diary : NORTHUMBERLAND : When we saw our first immigrant golden-eye bobbing on the waters of Bolam Lake in the early months of each year , we always took it as the first sign of spring . |
| 11 | council to , if you could like lump it with the next year 's . |
| 12 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 13 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |
| 14 | If inserting pushes a word into the invisible right-hand margin , the wordwrap feature automatically moves it to the next line . |
| 15 | He could now lose it on the last ball ! |
| 16 | Two women who were late for the bus at one castle were left behind to follow it to the next by taxi . |
| 17 | And if you 're flying more than one bird , you can take the transmitter off when you 've finished with one and simply attach it to the next . |
| 18 | This does not mean that the applicant can not let the house , but if she sells it , or simply uses it as a second home , she may have to pay back the whole or part of the grant with interest . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 20 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 21 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 22 | Or does n't , you know , exhaustively optimize it on the first pass , all the time . |
| 23 | Well we could maybe leave it till the next committee meeting to organize ourselves |
| 24 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 25 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 26 | And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week . |
| 27 | And then do it on the first time well if he wanted , he do n't have to go . |
| 28 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 29 | but he recommended to her to actually make it into a fourth bedroom because it would increase the value of the house |
| 30 | I think it would be nice , and then we could actually discuss it at the next planning meeting which I presume , which is the twentieth |