Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle . |
| 2 | He should be encouraged and allowed to write it slowly enough to write it correctly . |
| 3 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 4 | In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers . |
| 5 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 6 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 7 | you would have done it early enough to say , oh well , we can invite somebody else . |
| 8 | So I just put it on just to tick |
| 9 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 10 | Whether Darrel McHargue would have won on Commanche Run is irrelevant , for this was vintage Lester Piggott — the jockey completely at one with his horse , pushing it just enough to achieve maximum effort but always keeping it balanced , willing and galloping straight for the line . |
| 11 | They would n't have had it long enough to clear their own ground rent . |
| 12 | He 'd seen it himself but he 'd see it again just to keep latched on to them . |
| 13 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 14 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 15 | I know you have done a C C Q on yourself and we 've looked at each page in detail but I think until you actually do it yourself and maybe write little prompts to let you know what 's on the next page so you can signpost it most effectively to move round the C C Q as opposed to you dri er as opposed to it driving you , you can drive it , but that should be done in the fullness of time but I do recommend you do it before you actually do your first full appointment cos it might pay you . |
| 16 | I disclose it now only to help you save your niece . |
| 17 | She would need stock , after all , and if the selection was n't too impossible she could probably keep it long enough to clear it . |
| 18 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 19 | And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it . |
| 20 | I copy it down here to help me go forward . |
| 21 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 22 | But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone . |
| 23 | That had shocked me until I heard it too often to remain shocked . |
| 24 | With great magicians I 'll sit and converse , the whole universe would seem like a little pond , deer would swim by and as it swam by , ravage by war neglect and in great pain , I 'll take it out just to wipe its poor face clean and then quietly put it back again , if I worked magic , magic |
| 25 | ‘ But do n't foul it up just to prove I 'm right . ’ |
| 26 | To understand the world , then , and understand it well enough to contrive to live in it , there is no one way : not fact , not theory , not particularity , not abstraction ; and explanations of whatever kind are not universal answers , merely part of a progressive and accumulative act of learning and knowing . |
| 27 | What I suspect is that he was inspecting the binding and moved the candle to study it more closely to see if there was a gap between the cover and its backing : underneath the candle flame the writing must have appeared . ’ |
| 28 | Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern . |
| 29 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 30 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |