Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the farm worker preferred to defer to the authority of his ‘ betters ’ , or fight against it , or merely accept it as a fact of life and accommodate to it as best he could , he recognized that there was a clear , qualitative difference between this relationship and that with his fellow workers . |
| 2 | Or just throw it at the neighbours , thought Henry grimly , as he tipped the edenwort in next to the water-chestnuts and the giant yam . |
| 3 | Now you 're gon na want a pin , these are rather small pins , I recommend that peop people who have got large hands try and fit their first aid kit out with large pins , they 're much easier to handle , but firstly they do not put pins in their mouths for obvious reasons , either , either have it on the table open ready or just pop it in the front of shirt while you do this bit , okay ? |
| 4 | The English clerk would work doubly hard , either to resolve the problem or carefully to hide it behind a tissue of half-truths . |
| 5 | I do n't see how that you can possible reduce the number of deaths within the county , or even maintain it at the same level . |
| 6 | Even so , giving bright light at a time which should not affect the body clock or even adjust it in the wrong direction could be tested — as has already been described . |
| 7 | They are quite capable of grabbing a solitary puffin in mid-air with their beaks or even beating it to the ground with blows of their wings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 10 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 11 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 12 | It is worrying , therefore , that the NIRC in Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper opined : ‘ If they [ the employers ] want to make it absolutely certain that no tribunal will dissent from their dismissing the driver who is convicted of dangerous driving , then they should , in fairness to themselves and the driver , post a notice or otherwise bring it to the attention of all their drivers that any conviction for dangerous driving , regardless of the circumstances which give rise to it , will lead to dismissal . |
| 13 | Driving instructors will tell us that if a cat or dog strays into our path , and we are unable to stop or otherwise avoid it in an orderly fashion , then we should run it down . |
| 14 | Or cravenly deposit it in a bin ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Billy had already hand-reared a male cub and successfully released it into the wild . |
| 17 | Bourdieu 's first task is to rescue taste as preference from essentialist doctrines of aesthetics , and thereby free it as a potential tool for the contingent historical analysis of society . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There is no reason why this track should be any worse than the " effort " track except that I have chosen to block off the easy track and so turn it into a dead end . |
| 20 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 21 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 22 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 23 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 24 | ( and rightly linked it to the |
| 25 | The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage . |
| 26 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 27 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 28 | Allow to cool a little until the mixture is thick but still pours , then spoon onto the top of the cake and gently work it down the sides . |
| 29 | Installation involved hoisting the reactor by crane and gently lowering it into a prefabricated steel structure . |
| 30 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |