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

No	Sentence
1	Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 .
2	Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora .
3	I mean , you 're only using it one day a week .
4	They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night .
5	David heard about that , went along to see it one day , and that 's how the partnership with Lindsay started . ’
6	I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year .
7	No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really
8	‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers .
9	Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god
10	I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash .
11	She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan .
12	He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’
13	The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond .
14	He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way .
15	Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up .
16	You 've only had it two minutes .
17	On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy
18	And they will actually keep your deeds , erm work out if it is cheap enough to do it that way .
19	The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques .
20	So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping .
21	He lacked a driving force , though Constance was not sophisticated enough to put it that way .
22	‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’
23	So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way .
24	So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way .
25	So try it this afternoon and see how you get on .
26	Your ankle 's improving , so keep it that way . ’
27	he only did it last year
28	If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money .
29	‘ But I only bought it last year , ’ he insisted , holding up the ancient object .
30	Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ .