Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | As I unravelled the yarn , I wound it loosely around a single bed headboard , knitting the ends together as I went along . |
| 4 | I thought , ‘ If I 'm going to sing this album , I 'm going to have to work at it , ’ and I treated it rather like a weight-training program — I went in there , sung my guts out and tried to reach further every day . |
| 5 | The present challenges are : to design plants capable of making it economically on a large scale from coal ; to explore the potential of syn-gas ; and to develop its use in the production of basic chemicals . |
| 6 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 7 | This rarely happens but if the same ferret continues to do this it is advisable to discard it or use it only as a muzzled ferret . |
| 8 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 9 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 10 | ( ii ) They should be shown how to locate material from a range of sources , eg subject-specific reference books , adult encyclopaedias and databases , how to select material by deploying the appropriate reading strategy , how to evaluate it and how to draw it together into a coherent package . |
| 11 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 12 | Snorting angrily , he picked it up and read it aloud in a contemptuous voice : " Shareholders demand immediate explanation why production tonnage down last month . |
| 13 | So Lord Campbell of Alloway is trying to go it alone with a private member 's bill in the House of Lords . |
| 14 | THE Scottish National Party yesterday foreshadowed its campaign for next year 's European elections , in an effort to raise Scots ' confidence in going it alone as an independent nation . |
| 15 | Mr Ashdown will give warning tomorrow , in two television interviews and in his party 's last election broadcast , that an attempt by either Labour or Tories to go it alone in a hung Parliament would end in disaster . |
| 16 | My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray . |
| 17 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 18 | Since her husband had gone to join her , her tomb had been neglected , and sand was already drifting across its entrance , covering it inexorably in a red blanket . |
| 19 | Morrissey did n't produce it necessarily as a potential name for the foursome but Marr 's reaction was ecstatic . |
| 20 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 21 | If the response is strong , I suppose there could be other dates , but really we 're regarding it just as a single date right now . |
| 22 | Do n't think of it just as an early work . |
| 23 | I could tour it just like a normal album but I could use the art circuit as kind of a base audience . |
| 24 | You use it just like a dumb terminal , the difference being that instead of a plain text screen , it provides a mouse-and-windows interface . |
| 25 | Is it just like a little firm ? |
| 26 | Ian Botham ca n't have been expecting to have such a free winter , but he 's certainly filling it innovatively with a national tour of his show , An Evening With Ian Botham . |
| 27 | I use it normally on a clean setting , but if I want distortion I tend to go through a BOSS Turbo Overdrive pedal and then into the Rock Box . |
| 28 | Terribly difficult not to make it sound like a silly joke . |
| 29 | Watkins engineering , at Sling , had a novel way of getting rid of industrial toxic waste — tip it away down an old mine shaft . |
| 30 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |