Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team .
2 She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside .
3 A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company .
4 Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel .
5 ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew .
6 In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government .
7 As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over .
8 But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation .
9 There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were .
10 If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc .
11 You should also make a bed on which the flowers can lie from plenty of clean but crumpled tissue paper , also gently tucking it around the sides of the bouquet for added protection .
12 you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips
13 Now the State has already got a problem because in the next century , it will have insufficient people at work to pay for old age pensions we already know Mr Portillo is doing a pension review and is looking about only targeting it to the needy at the bottom well that means a lot of people like you and me will miss out on State pensions .
14 that 's almost certainly enough to nail it to the floor I would have thought .
15 so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale
16 We gently lowered it to the floor .
17 It was 'ard enough gettin' it in the first place .
18 Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ .
19 Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem .
20 You must be able to remove it quickly in case of fire , or some other emergency , so attach it to the window surround with double-sided tape , which can be easily ripped away or frequently replaced if you want to open up all the windows for a weekly blast of fresh air through the home .
21 The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage .
22 It was a new Fender Strat , bought from a shop on Shaftsbury Avenue in February ‘ 62 , and yes , I wish I still had it , but only to sell it for the large sums they fetch now !
23 If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring .
24 Simes how , do n't leave that lying around so put it on the side when you 've finished .
25 He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him .
26 So marvelous was the migrating instinct of birds that he could only ascribe it to the superior intelligence of their Creator .
27 We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority .
28 ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you .
29 Now thoroughly rattled , he bowled a no-ball , from which Lamb curiously took a single and so lost the strike ; but when Walsh now sent down a full toss , Foster gleefully walloped it to the rope and England had won .
30 ( For example , by commuting a communication through PAR using 5.6 or 5.7 , one might apparently remove it from the alphabet of the corresponding process . )
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