Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HE MAY not say it in public , but George Graham has a clear message this morning for Ian Wright : ‘ I can always get another forward but see what trouble you 'll have leaning backwards on a broken career ’ . |
| 2 | Often someone who wishes to use the toilet may not find it within easy reach or be able to get out of their chair in time . |
| 3 | She started to count how many people , who might not confess it in simple language , were relieved MacQuillan had gone . |
| 4 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 5 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 6 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 7 | This might sound like irresponsibility , but , given how the performance pans out , you could also read it as professional commitment ; the longer the show goes on , the more the drink goes down and , in a remarkable contradiction of physics , the tighter the playing becomes . |
| 8 | You could fairly smell it for far enough . |
| 9 | No — I could n't justify it to other people . |
| 10 | Except that privately I was lauded quite a lot and told , ‘ Oh that 's good , keep going into the hospitals and doing that ’ , but people could n't acknowledge it in public because their jobs would be on the line . |
| 11 | Given the current differing economic performance of Britain and West Germany , putting sterling in the exchange rate mechanism could well subject it to new strains . |
| 12 | Hair is a marvellous natural fibre — you could almost compare it to pure silk thread . |
| 13 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 14 | I said I would n't do it on casual . |
| 15 | She was stricken and missed him terribly , but she would n't show it in public . |
| 16 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 17 | She would n't put it past fitzAlan to read her mind . |
| 18 | you ca n't draw it in yellow cos it do n't er take on this so I 'm going |
| 19 | Operator is slightly different , ca n't do it in other words . |
| 20 | You ca n't get it from ordinary social contact like sharing food , towels , toilets or hugs . |
| 21 | I ca n't believe it in actual , yeah but there was a fight or something so they might not have it again |
| 22 | At that stage the divisional officer may have taken it away from the domestic scene , and er put it through to Glasgow if it was the , if the employer was a member of the employers ' association , he would then take it to local conference . |
| 23 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 24 | How was it possible in the late 1980s to put Trident into a bargaining regime , when we will not possess it until late 1994 ? |
| 25 | Lower courts will be bound by that precedent , while superior courts or those of the same rank will not upset it without reasoned consideration . |
| 26 | The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event . |
| 27 | A member of one local authority in England — I will not name it for obvious reasons — told me that the police in that area have said that following up poll tax debts and warrants is not a high priority . |
| 28 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 29 | It also ensures that only one instance ( primary and secondary ) of an offlined module exists ie. if an offlined module is returned to online storage , the offline instance is maintained , so that when the module is subsequently offlined again , Offline will simply delete it from online storage knowing that the offline copies still exist . |
| 30 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |