Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 32 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 33 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 34 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 35 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 36 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 37 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 38 | Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime : |
| 39 | You should also make a bed on which the flowers can lie from plenty of clean but crumpled tissue paper , also gently tucking it around the sides of the bouquet for added protection . |
| 40 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
| 41 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 42 | going to cash my giro today as well you can only cash it at one of your local |
| 43 | ‘ We call it that because the body only produces it at night , ’ says pioneering researcher Dr Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Sciences Uni-versity in America . |
| 44 | A tribe living near the shore might wonder at this evidence of sorting or arrangement in the world , and might develop a myth to account for it , perhaps attributing it to a Great Spirit in the sky with a tidy mind and a sense of order . |
| 45 | In the wild most of the eggs or fry of this type of spawner are eaten , but just enough make it to adulthood to keep the population steady . |
| 46 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 47 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 48 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 49 | They had driven over 1,700 miles in twenty-seven and a half hours , including frontier stops , only to miss it by five minutes . |
| 50 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 51 | ‘ She will only make it to you . ’ |
| 52 | With his hands so painful , the effort of holding open the springy collar enough to slide it from round his neck made him sweat . |
| 53 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 54 | Why was it you only got it at places like fairs and the seaside ? |
| 55 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 56 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 57 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 58 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 59 | When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday . |
| 60 | if Derek and he went away last weekend he perhaps stuffed it in here but then he drops it in when he finds it |