Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to try it straight to see how it looks and I 've heard there is a shampoo that temporarily smooths out the perm . |
| 2 | These young hooligans are stealing cigarettes and booze to sell it cheaply to feed a habit . |
| 3 | And they 've got a machine to do it anyway to work it all out , print it all out . |
| 4 | It is bad to lapse into the jargon without conveying its meaning and its connotations , because that is lazy ; and unforgivable to use it just to give the impression of being in with the chaps . |
| 5 | It is bad , if you are a scientist , to use it specifically to put outsiders down . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's terribly difficult , I keep having to read it again to try and work it out , ’ Gordon says by telephone from New York , where she is enjoying the acclaim for After the War , last summer 's Frederic Raphael TV series for Granada in which she played the Raphael alter ego 's wife . |
| 7 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 8 | Most of this information is disconcertingly dry : we have to squeeze it hard to make anything of it at all . |
| 9 | It swooped down towards Risborough and he managed to control it enough to bring it into a field |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Coyle insists he has had no trouble this season with his suspect knee but said : ‘ I would be prepared to risk it anyway to remain in senior soccer . ’ |
| 12 | And then she came bounding back and could n't stop herself , went straight into Doreen , knocked Doreen off her legs completely , and she was just sprawled out on all fours , it was just hilarious , we , in fact we did an action replay on that because you had to see it again to believe it . |
| 13 | Some , I hear , are split down the middle within themselves and are going back to see it twice to make up their minds about the play ! |
| 14 | They might take it only from those who came into their bailiwicks from outside , with their permission , to buy underwood , timber , bark or charcoal , to carry it elsewhere to sell it , and from no others . |
| 15 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |
| 16 | Engineers apart , there are no students who will ever manage to get it together to decide on pay . |
| 17 | Well actually , if you have more to say on this topic fine , I was actually going to change it slightly to discuss his apparent classlessness . |
| 18 | For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead . |
| 19 | got to pay it again to go and collect it back off him ! |
| 20 | When a pump action toothpaste tube became empty in my bathroom , I decided to take it apart to see if I could put it to further use . |
| 21 | There was plenty of room on the course and it was relatively easy to lengthen it enough to test the professionals . |
| 22 | We 've got to find a way to make it OK to buy a Buick . ’ |
| 23 | It will last longer and you 'll also be able to sponge it gently to clean it . |
| 24 | Oh well yeah I 'd have to bring it home to have it done . |