Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 3 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ibn Battuta was lucky enough to see it in its prime : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 8 | They had driven over 1,700 miles in twenty-seven and a half hours , including frontier stops , only to miss it by five minutes . |
| 9 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 10 | With his hands so painful , the effort of holding open the springy collar enough to slide it from round his neck made him sweat . |
| 11 | Not sure enough to write it on his precious list . |
| 12 | The plants are trained up a string which is zig-zagged up and down to train it in one place . |
| 13 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
| 14 | This would solve the problem choosing a new amp and getting to a gig only to find it to be a wimp . |
| 15 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 16 | It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now ! |
| 17 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 18 | While dream incorporations are explained by the psychoanalytic model , it could also be that only stimuli which fail to arouse the brain sufficiently to tip it into wakefulness result in dream incorporation , rather than that the dream incorporation results in continued sleeping . |
| 19 | This contrast with the previous medieval/religious paradigm where the purpose of life was the salvation of the soul and man had no need to understand the physical universe , only to celebrate it as God 's creation . |
| 20 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 21 | Cecilia could clearly remember the days before refrigerators were in general use — she did not have one until 1952 — and remember too the smell of the joint by Sunday lunchtime if you had been imprudent enough to buy it on Friday . |
| 22 | An impromptu purchase , and a bit extravagant , but remaining tidily or prettily dressed is an important investment in job search , marriage and social life , so I try only to slum it in track suit at weekends and totally quiet evenings at home . |
| 23 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 24 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 25 | yeah , you know he 's got to have somebody behind him , cos he ai n't man enough to do it on his own though |
| 26 | The main advantage of building your own — or getting a local builder in to do it for you — is that you can satisfy your requirements precisely , cope with all sorts of little local site difficulties , and create a building that is a good match for your house style . |
| 27 | If you 're good at do-it-yourself , then fine , have a go , if you 're not this particularly applies to the gents , swallow your pride and get somebody in to do it for you . |
| 28 | Admire the Liberty shawl for Aunt Elspeth , and wonder if she might be delighted enough to leave it to me in her will . |
| 29 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 30 | I decided it was a good idea to write things down rather than depending on the tape because erm I 'm not actually going to get round to transcribing the tape quickly enough to use it as minutes . |