Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 And th they could get the pronunciation as well , be able to , to speak it properly besides spelling it .
2 As he rather paradoxically put it , the final cause had to be first .
3 A better solution perhaps is to leave the pad out of the filter altogether only using it when necessary .
4 About a quarter thought the BBC was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government ; rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties .
5 Only one elector in seven thought ITV was biased in its treatment of the Conservatives and , again , rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties .
6 Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties .
7 Only one in seven thought ITV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservatives and , again , rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties .
8 He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly .
9 She dusted it off and then rather timidly mounted it .
10 Right so write it as about here write it as three times seventeen , minus two .
11 In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity .
12 In the case of the Hexagon , you 'll have three legs provided , but one of the delights of this shape is that only rarely does it need bridle adjustment .
13 He 's a beautiful hunk of male virility , something you 'll never be , and I enjoy playing around with him , as you so delicately put it . ’
14 ‘ No , not at all , ’ Robyn murmured through clenched teeth , ‘ because , you see , I do n't grub around as you so delicately put it — I design . ’
15 Wants me to — as she so delicately puts it — get off my behind and scare the loathsome Gittelspawn to death .
16 Keith Floyd , the housewife 's galloping choice and tippling gourmet extraordinaire , has said goodbye to the roues of Provence , the stews of West Cork and embarked upon , as he so professionally put it , ‘ the BBC maxi-break of a lifetime ’ .
17 Perhaps they once had the full response , but the ‘ hammer , hammer on the hard , high road ’ has long since dinned it out of them .
18 Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings .
19 She was someone who minded her own business and had long since discovered it was seldom worth while to interfere with other people 's children .
20 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
21 Robyn had a reputation in the family for being strong-willed , or , as her brother Basil less flatteringly put it , ‘ bossy ’ .
22 But , as the French report so politely puts it :
23 Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states .
24 I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’
25 Always explain what you are doing , and if they can understand you , ask if it 's all right to do it .
26 All right turn it off . .
27 After years of listening to and reading Anglo-Saxon women letting it all hang out , it was refreshing to be among women who so rigorously kept it all in .
28 It is particularly striking that some of these reviewers , when discussing recordings by English ensembles , praise what they assume to be the impeccable musicological credentials of what they are hearing , so clear does it seem to European eyes that early-music performance in England is conducted under the vigilant eyes of scholars .
29 The catering was so little used it was decided to suspend it and it was necessary to dig into the precious Henly legacy for repairs , wages , course upkeep and to off-set the catering losses .
30 All these systems dealt with the problem of how to dispose of stock when , as Day 's library so elegantly put it on the slip , ‘ the first demand for the book has abated ’ .
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