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

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1 ‘ That meeting with Ken and his decision to make Ken 's part big made it a sort of broken-back type of play .
2 The average man may perhaps think it an exaggeration but I do assure you that this is factually so and nights are not now so dark that I can not be completely aware of what is happening around me before , during and after the nets have been set .
3 Better make it a pound each . ’
4 Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two .
5 The new crossing will obviously make it a lot safer . ’
6 The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ .
7 I 'm glad I did n't buy a sling because I only used it a couple of times .
8 Maybe he was still small enough to find it a novelty .
9 Wherever it was , Roe apparently considered it an obstacle to his plans , and he indicated his intention of writing to Wilson offering that man a share , in consideration of relinquishing his rights and transferring these to the Macclesfield company .
10 on only roughing it a bit , I 've brought a canvas down so do n't muck it about .
11 ‘ Well , I 've only done it a couple of times as you know .
12 Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent .
13 Even in rugby , the Afrikaners ' passion , the formation of a single non-racial administrative body is imminent ; the octogenarian rugby boss , Danie Craven , has long thought it a game for robust men of all races , and in 1988 angered Mr de Klerk by sending an emissary to contact , among others , the African National Congress — one of whose leaders is now working to dismantle the boycott .
14 So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work .
15 Spotting a hatch in the far wall , she walked across and gingerly opened it a crack .
16 Thus , to make the whole hard disk open for others to read , the owner would publish the root directory ( C : \ ) and perhaps give it a name ( eg.
17 A vet who wishes to examine a cat may approach it in this way before , for instance , holding it down to give it an injection .
18 But friends assured me there was more to this grand range of mountains than my experience had suggested , and so to give it a chance I went back to climb Cairn Gorm properly , giving the bridies as wide a body swerve as possible .
19 People have wrongly called it a microprocessor , when that really should be restricted to the processing unit itself rather than the complete microcomputer .
20 Above all , they want a minister who , having taken a decision , does not constantly alter it every time some pressure is brought to bear .
21 My chances of getting my hands on it long enough to give it the once-over were minimal , and I did n't fancy trying to steal it off Harley .
22 I will perhaps call it a constipation in glass , wrote Harsnet , not a delay in glass , but an advance , he wrote , on my last readymade , the hard stool , my present to Goldberg on the occasion of his third wedding .
23 ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’
24 because you see I only use it a tankful once a day when I have a bath in the morning have a bath at night as well .
25 Bowen delivered the ideal ball into the penalty area and Sutton reached it before the advancing Norman only to flick it a yard or so over the top .
26 She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ .
27 And to think that in the West they merely call it the Wall .
28 So leave it a fortnight and then we 've got ta pay ours so then you can sort yours out .
29 Apple apparently considers it a way to expand its software to a new population of a million machines .
30 To come back on something that Mr said and perhaps take it a stage further .
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