Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 2 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 3 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 4 | and just stuck it in little boxes , like little boxes and |
| 5 | We look at some ways of coping with it , and also recognising it in other people , because if you 've got people working for you , and they 're stressed , and they have time off work , you 've got to carry things on , have n't you ? |
| 6 | This lay demand for teaching about contemplative spirituality together with the particular emphases of individual mystics who met and also stimulated it in fourteenth-century England , both represents , and engages with , a complex web of theological and socio-historical developments . |
| 7 | That would protect the recovery ( and even enhance it by encouraging spending in advance of tax increases ) . |
| 8 | That was all part of the job — dig the dirt and then turn it into pure gold . |
| 9 | But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ? |
| 10 | Oh I just boiled the ends a bit and erm and then put it in deep water . |
| 11 | the school was able to save money on non-educational things like waste collection , and then use it for educational items ; and |
| 12 | The program puts up words one at a time , in transcription , and the user 's task is to read the word and then input it in normal spelling . |
| 13 | My research , if I can call it that , has involved ( over the same period ) a cyclical process of listening to teachers , tidying up what I think I 've heard into some more-or-less coherent story , and then telling it to other teachers to see if it makes sense to them , and captures in an interesting , plausible and fruitful way something significant of their experience . |
| 14 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 15 | He is not a neutral observer who first learns to define Truth and then applies it to different aspects of life . |
| 16 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 17 | I chose my favourite poem in the book and wrote one verse on the accompanying card , and then decorated it with pressed flowers to match the bookmark . |
| 18 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |
| 19 | It uses optical scanning to store information on computer and then networks it to scattered staff who index , abstract and compile the material for an on-line database in Amsterdam . |
| 20 | To produce their charcoal , Ray and Alan cut the wood , load the kiln , empty it into sacks after the burn and then re-bag it for retail sale . |
| 21 | Sir Leon extended early parole to many more short-sentence prisoners and virtually abolished it for long-term offenders convicted on drugs , sex , arson , and violence charges . |
| 22 | They just get a kick out of bringing home a project they 've worked on and proudly showing it to other people . ’ |
| 23 | But a simple squat can exercise most of the muscles in the body and yet keep it in perfect balance . |
| 24 | CHECK the castle is moored securely to the ground and never use it in high winds or wet weather as they have been known to slip over and wet slippery surfaces can be dangerous . |
| 25 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 26 | The first , and political argument , is that historicism ‘ desires ’ not only to predict change but also to control it by centralized large-scale planning . |