Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 2 | Some eastern European cars do it better . |
| 3 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 4 | Security was to be bought — at least sometimes — but not for free men and women but , as the English terminology put it clearly , for ‘ servants ’ — whose liberty was strictly constrained : domestic servants , ‘ railway servants ’ , even ‘ civil servants ’ ( or public officials ) . |
| 5 | British rail tested it exhaustively but could find no way of making it fail . |
| 6 | Given that these viewpoints and value bases are so antagonistic , and yet rarely made explicit , it is not surprising that different groups find it so hard to trust and respect each other . |
| 7 | Same old story getting it underneath cos they 're going higher up and underneath |
| 8 | It was a painful decision to leave it behind but they thought it would be safest in one of the tin trunks in the box-room at The Tamarisks . |
| 9 | A FRENCH driver took it literally when he asked for directions and was told to ‘ go straight over the roundabout ’ . |
| 10 | I never could decide who was right , socialists — even revolutionaries — or the arch-capitalists , and it seemed we 'd never find out in Britain because whatever way the popular vote went it never really brought any real change of direction . |
| 11 | ‘ Different styles made it thoroughly entertaining and nobody was complaining apart from me ! |
| 12 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 13 | Every so often the light wind teased it away from her ears , revealing her favourite earrings as they swung against its soft darkness . |
| 14 | There is ambiguity in the question asked but a high proportion interpreted it literally . |
| 15 | ‘ Also , the high winds make it more dangerous when passing high-sided vehicles . |
| 16 | Yet reticence in sexual matters makes it less than probable that these will be the first mentioned . |
| 17 | In a hired car , a motorhome or even on horseback , America is the place for British visitors to go it alone . |
| 18 | ‘ Orf'ly bad show , old girl , but I 'm afraid Dougie bought it today . ’ |
| 19 | Having to work from different angles makes it extremely difficult to maintain an even symmetry throughout the design , and it is therefore not surprising that nomadic rugs sometimes contain motifs of slightly varying sizes ; the fact that so many are perfectly balanced and symmetrical is a glowing testament to the weavers ' skill . |
| 20 | In the nineteenth century , foreign travel was regarded as a mind improving experience , and the latest steam powered transport made it more comfortable , safer , faster and eventually cheaper . |
| 21 | In the nineteenth century , foreign travel was regarded as a mind improving experience , and the latest steam powered transport made it more comfortable , safer , faster and eventually cheaper . |
| 22 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | ‘ And what makes me mad is this flippant desire to dismiss it as dead . ’ |
| 24 | One interesting feature of this discovery seems to me that it 's been a combination of different individuals approaching it almost laterally , in a sense , because you 're not an astronomer , particularly , are you ? |
| 25 | It 's very difficult for an English group to make it there , so I thought it would be nice to a French one because I quite admire that conservative spirit . |
| 26 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |
| 27 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 28 | This gives a stocking length of 10″ ( 25cm ) , and placing them in a 20 gallon tank ( 90l ) you have , according to the aforementioned ratio stocked it correctly . |
| 29 | Given the opinion poll results in The Guardian today , which show that a clear and growing majority of people are against further moves towards European monetary and political union , does my right hon. Friend find it rather curious that both the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party favour unilateral disarmament on the question of federalism ? |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend has it exactly and precisely right in terms of laying the foundation for European action on foreign affairs and defence , and that is the right direction in which Britain should go . |