Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We call it that because the body only produces it at night , ’ says pioneering researcher Dr Alfred Lewy of the Oregon Health Sciences Uni-versity in America . |
| 2 | This not only keeps it in place , but it also feels nice for your partner and means you can stroke yourself at the same time . |
| 3 | For if a planet or moon is too small then it will not have enough gravity to retain an atmosphere unless it constantly replenishes it by evaporation from the surface ; the gases simply float away . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be inconceivable , in the opinion of the Court , that Article 6(1) should describe in detail the procedural guarantees afforded to parties in a pending law suit and should not first protect that which alone makes it in fact possible to benefit from such guarantees , that is access to a court . |
| 5 | TV star Bill Cosby comes second with almost £200 million but even singer Michael Jackson only makes it to No 7 , according to black newspaper The Weekly Journal . |
| 6 | His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind . |
| 7 | ‘ He just uses it for storage . ’ |
| 8 | This forces the upper transistor to source current and thus biases it into class-A . |
| 9 | They , they put , we go to er , a little shop in , only a little shop and they have to got into er one at Croydon every Thursday , and he get 's , the manager , he get 's the er , driver 's to come out of head office , and what staff , and he always buys it in bulk and he , he still buys say it 's coca cola say it was ten pence a can |
| 10 | He gradually improves it with practice into the normal chaffinch song shown at the top . |
| 11 | So clueless and misguided are these sorry types — so lacking in insight , intent and , bloody hell , a sense of humour — that if a great comedy show ever makes it to TV List magazine it can only be DESPITE the pony-tails whose job it is to shepherd these things to a laff-hungry public . |
| 12 | Its contribution has in part been developed through its critical understanding of what a working-class adult education might be , drawing on the best elements of the liberal adult education tradition to produce an education that respects people 's culture and experience , but also subjects it to analysis and questioning . |
| 13 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 14 | The clip is dual-purpose in that as well as holding the slate in position , it also secures it against wind uplift which is a possible cause of the original slippage . |
| 15 | A Dutch holding company is not taxed on disposals of its subsidiaries , and the Dutch treaty network often protects it from tax on the disposal in the subsidiary 's country . |
| 16 | Credit sale — the customer buys the product ( and legally owns it from day one ) but pays by instalments . |
| 17 | Amidst the vineyards and olive groves that surround Strove , this 17th century state has been restored to its original splendour and now far surpasses it in comfort . |
| 18 | Jane Austen may seem in Sense and Sensibility to join with Edward in preferring cottages in good repair , even at the cost of the picturesque ; but on another occasion , in Northanger Abbey , she appears to side with Catherine , who is so delighted by the view of ‘ a sweet little cottage ’ among apple trees which she sees from the windows of the parsonage at Woodston that her enthusiasm even saves it from demolition . |
| 19 | Since he did n't like the golf course either he was in no real frame of mind to ‘ spreadeagle the field ’ , as a well-known golf pundit invariably and irritatingly puts it on television . |
| 20 | He moulds the ash frame with boiling water , then covers it with calico waterproofed with bitumen , tar and linseed oil . |
| 21 | Each Brownie then takes it in turn to pin their card on the map where she thinks that country is . |
| 22 | Adding a line that works out the total amount paid in and the interest received at least puts it in perspective . |
| 23 | After that is over , the male slips out of the door and the female once again locks it with silk . |
| 24 | When A posts the offer to B he impliedly authorises B to conclude the contract by posting a letter of acceptance , but only on the assumption that the acceptance is properly addressed ; if it is not , there is no acceptance even though the Post Office cleverly delivers it on time . |
| 25 | But there is one bird — an eagle , I think — which actually does it in mid-air … |
| 26 | Has she not I mean she never watches it after tea if you notice , she 'll always go out and play or something . |