Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall think that it defies a physical law if we are naive enough to treat it simply as a structureless lump of matter with a certain mass and wind resistance . |
| 2 | Nancarrow , on his third match point , at 9–9 , played another drop which was not that tight and Marshall , closing in to drive it deep , was obstructed and asked for a let . |
| 3 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 4 | He thought about the plot for a year or two , but when he sat down to write it late last year , it came very quickly . ’ |
| 5 | Before the right hon. Gentleman issues a denial , will he confirm that before the previous election the Tories said that they would continue to pay child benefit as before — only to freeze it immediately for three years when they took office ? |
| 6 | Bodin raced in to smash it home … and it was time to party … |
| 7 | One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate . |
| 8 | The rituals are repeated , the mephitic river risked , but only to find it finally uninspired . |
| 9 | I managed to find an old taxi , and Rachel and I rushed to this gleaming American hospital only to find it apparently empty ! |
| 10 | ( Yet surely a murderer would not stand in the middle of an enormous snow-covered , frost-bitten field in the dark on such a night , just on the off-chance that someone would be silly enough to cross it alone ! ) |
| 11 | That do n't take long to unpack it really , does it ? |
| 12 | ‘ With time , you 'll be able to craft that raw burning into whatever you choose , and hopefully be able to control it enough to experience it only when you want to . ’ |
| 13 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 14 | There would seem to be a strong argument , with so many millions of us , only to do it once . |
| 15 | It must be pointed out , however , that the defender 's outstretched arm tries , not to block the punch , but merely to guide it away by utilizing the turning stance , thus changing her front stance to a side stance . |
| 16 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 17 | These included Jespersen 's Primer of the English Language , a book I had not opened since my student days , and then only to shut it immediately , never in the intervening years opening it again . |
| 18 | Isabel opened her mouth to protest at this cavalier treatment of her clothing , only to shut it again in alarm when he took a step forward and leaned over her , bracing his hands on the mattress and trapping her between them . |
| 19 | The perfect answer to all the music press critics : the massed armies of the anti-Morrissey brigade and yours truly ( who bought the record only to give it away a week later after feeling let down ) , came by way of the fans . |
| 20 | Also , the coach should have a comprehensive kit on hand and he should be skilled enough to use it properly . |
| 21 | It would n't take long to do it now but I ca n't be bothered |
| 22 | Although led by communists , Hannington 's movement was criticized by the Communist party for failing to politicize the unemployed , large numbers of whom joined the movement only to leave it quickly once work was obtained . |
| 23 | He arrived at his desk , squinted at the offering tucked into his blotter and sat down to read it properly : a short , sanctimonious newspaper piece on the temptation and pressures on the successful young , Tristram Wilson being mentioned , with many a crocodile tear , as one of the recent casualties . |
| 24 | He was excited enough to pursue it further . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you think you 'll ever be well enough to run it again ? ’ |
| 26 | Its results were meagre ; the Russians agreed to consider Eisenhower 's " open skies " proposal for aerial inspection of military installations ( only to reject it later ) , and there was some talk of a new spirit in international affairs — the " spirit of Geneva " . |
| 27 | Sadly , the Warnock majority is confused as to its basic philosophical argument , condemning utilitarianism in its foreword but relying on it in justifying its crucial recommendation to allow experiments up to 14 days , only to reject it again in opposing the routine testing of drugs on human embryos at any stage from conception . |
| 28 | Enough to curve it right back on itself so an astronaut going in a straight line would land back where he started ? ’ |
| 29 | To give a man great joy , only to snatch it away , leaving him in great despair . |
| 30 | Now that is the accepted way of doing it , and I can not see any reason why that can not be done , erm in Greater York , once the location for the new settlement is erm er is identified , erm so that 's my definition of erm integrated and balanced community , it 's a concept , you ca n't define , I do n't think , integrated and balanced separately , you need to bind them together er into into some erm er or all er erm concept , erm now the erm the question you did pose me , sir , which er I did take a note of , but I wonder if you 'd be kind enough to repeat it so I 've I 've a I 've a got it quite clear before I respond . |