Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 2 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 3 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 4 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 5 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 6 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 7 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 8 | He went on pressing it until the starter engine ground to a halt . |
| 9 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 10 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 11 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 12 | If I 'm going to snuff it , I 'd rather snuff it with a pint in my fist than one of their bloody mugs of Ovaltine . |
| 13 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 14 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 15 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 16 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 17 | Rubberneck could only compare it with a wedding , the crush , as a fight , when the cars drove off and they always threw out coins . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 20 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 21 | You should also make a bed on which the flowers can lie from plenty of clean but crumpled tissue paper , also gently tucking it around the sides of the bouquet for added protection . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A tribe living near the shore might wonder at this evidence of sorting or arrangement in the world , and might develop a myth to account for it , perhaps attributing it to a Great Spirit in the sky with a tidy mind and a sense of order . |
| 24 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 25 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 26 | Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions . |
| 27 | that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought . |
| 28 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 29 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 30 | It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place . |