Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How was it possible in the late 1980s to put Trident into a bargaining regime , when we will not possess it until late 1994 ? |
| 32 | and just stuck it in little boxes , like little boxes and |
| 33 | It 's easy to obtain organic tomato seed of excellent quality by growing your own and ensuring you do not take it from diseased plants . |
| 34 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 35 | I 'm not doing it for monetary reward or because I 'm asked to ; I 'm doing it because I feel I have to do it . |
| 36 | They 're certainly not doing it with other men ( only 3.6 per cent claim to have had homosexual intercourse ) , so can we presume yet again that men just like to say they do it more often . |
| 37 | It is just that he will not apply it to future pension rights because he is not in the least interested in defending workers ' pension rights . |
| 38 | The Triumph company can continue marketing its flagship 125 bhp model in Britain but can not sell it in other EC countries . |
| 39 | A member of one local authority in England — I will not name it for obvious reasons — told me that the police in that area have said that following up poll tax debts and warrants is not a high priority . |
| 40 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 41 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |
| 42 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 43 | Finally , from within psychoanalytical criticism but from outside the Anglo-American paradigm , Gertrud Koch has drawn attention to a different theorisation of the gaze , one that does not link it to voyeuristic ( peeping through the keyhole ) pleasure but rather to the earlier , pre-symbolic stage in which the small child gazes openly at the world and at its mother : ‘ We may in fact owe the invention of the camera not to the keyhole but to the baby-carriage ’ . |
| 44 | Hopefully we have not left it to late . |
| 45 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 46 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 47 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 48 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 49 | Her husband and children respected her privacy at this time and did not interrupt it with trivial enquiries like : ‘ Where 's my shirt ? ’ or ‘ What 's for dinner ? ’ |
| 50 | you just start it in standard mode or in default mode . |
| 51 | I think that just puts it into bloody perspective |
| 52 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 53 | De La Rue 's sale of the Crosfield Electronics printing equipment business did not relieve it of other losses in advanced security equipment and in spite of the new cash surplus , the interim results are grisly . |
| 54 | De La Rue 's sale of the Crosfield Electronics printing equipment business did not relieve it of other losses in advanced security equipment and in spite of the new cash surplus , the interim results are grisly . |
| 55 | ‘ You 're an architect , someone who 's supposed to improve this planet , not festoon it with ill-placed coils of lurid metal . |
| 56 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 57 | HE MAY not say it in public , but George Graham has a clear message this morning for Ian Wright : ‘ I can always get another forward but see what trouble you 'll have leaning backwards on a broken career ’ . |
| 58 | It is a peaceful fish which likes a quiet life , so do not house it with lively fish . |
| 59 | My free wing hung from the pole for I could not easily close it without terrible pain ; my eyes were fixed on them . |
| 60 | Often someone who wishes to use the toilet may not find it within easy reach or be able to get out of their chair in time . |