Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 2 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 3 | All were of the highest technical calibre and all displayed an extraordinary range of exuberant and exotic motifs , For a few years , until Justinian effectively eclipsed it by his construction of the church of St Sophia in 532–537 , st Polyeuktos was evidently the largest and most sumptuous church in Istanbul ( Constantinople ) . |
| 4 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 5 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 6 | The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position . |
| 7 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 8 | ( Sweet ale drinkers vigorously attacked it as that pernicious and wicked weed ) . |
| 9 | This summer , a flock of 31 birds ( including some European flamingos — Phoenicopterus ruber rosus ) successfully raised four chicks at the site , thereby allowing it to be designated as the world 's most northerly wild flamingo colony . |
| 10 | The level control built into the transmitter can help to reduce this effect , but can rarely eliminate it without compromising the output level . |
| 11 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 12 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 13 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 14 | Build a boat , and go on building it in spite of the cost to your reputation . |
| 15 | The main point I want to make is that the only justification for treating the sick and injured wild animal is to be able eventually to restore it to its wild existence . |
| 16 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 17 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 18 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 19 | He went on pressing it until the starter engine ground to a halt . |
| 20 | Although there was initially some resistance on the part of manufacturers to the development of the variety multiples , they eventually found it to their advantage to deal directly with them . |
| 21 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 22 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 23 | I think I would actually like to pursue that point Group Captain but I I think I 'd rather pursue it in in the closed session than an open session . |
| 24 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 25 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 26 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 27 | By lowering the height of the wall , and thereby enabling it to be built more thickly , it could be made more effective in both defence and counter-attack . |
| 28 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 29 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 30 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |