Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 2 | Anyone trying to understand something will naturally compare it with other things to find similarities and differences . |
| 3 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 4 | We felt we could only do it through local pressure , using the media and direct action ’ , a member of the group recalled . |
| 5 | You can only swap it for nice things . |
| 6 | The Building News , The Gentleman 's Magazine and The Ecclesiologist all reprinted it in full . |
| 7 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 8 | It is generally best to leave maintenance and repairs of central heating boilers to an expert service engineer , and to have your system serviced at least annually to keep it in good condition . |
| 9 | Styling outside and inside distinguishes it from big brothers |
| 10 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 11 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 12 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 13 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 14 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 15 | The statistically ‘ typical ’ rapist — the man who rapes one woman he knows — does not make it to front-page coverage , let alone fifty-nine pages across thirteen newspapers over ten days . |
| 16 | The Final will not make it onto American TV screens until four months after the event . |
| 17 | ( When you 're not eating it with other meats , try melon , fresh figs or avocado . ) |
| 18 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 19 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 20 | Ragusa was able , however , to develop its overland trade with the Balkan hinterland , as this activity did not bring it into direct competition with the seaborne trade of Venice . |
| 21 | Mention the most important points about the questionnaire you would use , but do not show it in full . |
| 22 | Sir Patrick said the brochure had a dual aim : to show potential recruits that government legal work was responsible and worthwhile ; and to dispel the notion that the service was for lawyers who had not made it in other parts of the profession . |
| 23 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 24 | I did not take any of that seriously , though I would have had to be ice all through to hear it with utter in-difference . |
| 25 | not paying it till black one comes |
| 26 | ‘ It is offensive of the company to give an assurance to hourly-paid staff , but not extend it to white-collar workers . ’ |
| 27 | They could not use it in real life … |
| 28 | She started to count how many people , who might not confess it in simple language , were relieved MacQuillan had gone . |
| 29 | Thus , speakers who have productive control of Dyirbal morphology tend not to use it in peer-group situations . |
| 30 | Lower courts will be bound by that precedent , while superior courts or those of the same rank will not upset it without reasoned consideration . |