Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Remember to let the feeling out , let it gush out like a fountain , but draw it back afterwards . |
| 2 | As a Save Eldorado Campaign splutters on , the writers seem content to let it fizzle out like a glass of flat Spanish beer . |
| 3 | I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast . |
| 4 | well let it dry off for a minute , well they must have a card , good job I thought about that I should be interested to see what she calls her because I think Annalise is a beautiful name |
| 5 | Elementals often appear as a moving light or a change in temperature , or they may take the form of an animal or bird and make it behave oddly for a period of time . |
| 6 | I do n't see the point of doing things that make it sound completely unlike a guitar . |
| 7 | Lord have mercy upon us , " said the Collector heavily , making it sound more like a command than a supplication . |
| 8 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 9 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 10 | does it boil down , does it boil down to a lack of security to the fact that ? |
| 11 | The starting point is a question which Adam Smith , John Maynard Keynes or Milton Friedman would be hard pushed to answer : why does it take longer for a carpenter or bricklayeer to earn the price of a pound of meat or a housebrick than it did five centuries ago ? |
| 12 | Could it go out as an appendix ? |
| 13 | You curve the surface by making it go down into a hollow . |
| 14 | 4. does it have the support of major well-tried traditions , or does it stand out on a limb as possibly idiosyncratic ? |
| 15 | Its ‘ soft-bite ’ texture makes it seem more like a teat then a normal spout . |
| 16 | Second , political violence in England was not invented by the BUF , nor did it come about as a response to its activities . |