Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] it [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , the facts are , and this is all in Trivers if you want to look up erm if you want to look it up in more detail , that males die more readily than females , from all causes that affect both sexes and some that even do n't and you 'd be astonished about , like for instance , you gather from John book on the myth of he heterosexual you 're not allowed to buy in this country , you have to import it from the U S. |
| 2 | Even if they do , they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 4 | So really just I I always have problems , I I always tend to play it down like that , I do n't know why . |
| 5 | Thinking is a capacity to refer at will , whose nature is made more mysterious if we try to chop it up into mental episodes with particular epistemic content or causal power . |
| 6 | Eat slightly less and exercise a little more ; aim to bring it back to normal within a week or two . |
| 7 | You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly . |
| 8 | what you have to do is , Tim have the first go , we have to stir it round like that with a , with a fork , OK |
| 9 | But you have to hold it down like that , and not let it burst free and flop trembling onto the table . ’ |