Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 32 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 33 | Chlorine is relatively easy to measure I 'm sure you 'll all of done it at A level chemistry titration , silver nitrate ? |
| 34 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 35 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 36 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 37 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 38 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 39 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 40 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 41 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 42 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 43 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 44 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 45 | ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’ |
| 46 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 47 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 48 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 49 | Philip accepted my idea , and incorporated it into a memorable paper he gave to the Royal Archaeological Institute in 1955 ( published in Arch . |
| 50 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 51 | The hedgehog itself was 19 stitches wide and she had saved it as a 23-stitch pattern repeat . |
| 52 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 53 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 54 | I 've suspected it for a long time , but now it 's absolutely dear ! |
| 55 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 56 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 57 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 58 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 59 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 60 | To have seen it is associated with a more positive attitude towards SSE , not to have seen it with a neutral attitude ; to recall it well is associated with an even more positive attitude towards SSE , not to recall it well with only a mildly positive attitude ; to associate changes with its use with a very positive attitude ; not to do so with only a mildly positive attitude . |