Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 2 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 3 | He might keep the bitterness alive in his heart , even if nobody knew or talked about it at all . |
| 4 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 5 | Conversely the under-confident person may be hesitant to predict danger or to react to it with sufficient purpose or determination . |
| 6 | ‘ He has played no part in either building the party or campaigning for it for four years now . ’ |
| 7 | However , what is behind Quine 's refusal to admit a prior substantive concept of reality — a corollary of his rejection of the a priori — is that our broadest conception of reality is derived from science ; ‘ science identifies and describes reality ’ and without science we have no way to think or talk about it at all . |
| 8 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 9 | No one could have been better suited for the role , nor taken to it with more enthusiasm . |
| 10 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 11 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 12 | But Beatriz Lavandera has adopted this approach to syntactic variation in a much more radical form , and argued for it in some detail . |
| 13 | Dolly picked up the chop bone and nibbled at it with sharp teeth . |
| 14 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 15 | Pau retains a circle of Anglophiles who cherish the British connection and speak of it with affectionate admiration — not the most widespread of French responses to us . |
| 16 | But that I must try and look at it like this : that Mama had been her very special baby — and so had I. So that could never be the same again . |
| 17 | Landseer praised his Seventy-eight Studies from Nature 1808–1810 and talked about it in some detail in the New London Review of 1810 . |
| 18 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 19 | Move around the image and look at it from various points of view . |
| 20 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 21 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 22 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 23 | Keep this manual by you when using LIFESPAN and refer to it for specific and detailed information on particular facilities |
| 24 | This is not as objectionable though as the host of descriptions which virtually conceal the identity of the product and refer to it by any of a number of lurid , dramatic or pseudo scientific titles which bear little if any relationship to function . |
| 25 | How would the condition that Fred should collect the car and pay for it within 2 hours be treated in law ? |
| 26 | The centre of this novel is the interpolated tale of the dead and beloved Tom Outland , who discovers a prehistoric and beautiful city in the sun on the mesa , and tells about it in immediate , enthusiastic prose . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't help it , it 's this horrible cave … ’ she complained huskily , her fingers finding the spring of his curly hair at the nape of his neck , and raking through it with shameless provocation . |
| 28 | So thank you for 1991 , and go for it in 1992 . |
| 29 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 30 | He turned towards the house and stared at it with brooding eyes . |