Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
| 2 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 3 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 4 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
| 5 | I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year . |
| 6 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers . |
| 8 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 9 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 10 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 11 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 12 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 13 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |
| 14 | Paul Franklin was sound , and Angela Cartwright confessed that she too had long thought it high time Grunte gave up . |
| 15 | You 've only had it two minutes . |
| 16 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 17 | And they will actually keep your deeds , erm work out if it is cheap enough to do it that way . |
| 18 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 19 | He lacked a driving force , though Constance was not sophisticated enough to put it that way . |
| 20 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ said Bernard , ‘ if you 'd only stuck it another month , you 'd have got your degree and we could have begun to live quite comfortably . ’ |
| 21 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 22 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 23 | So try it this afternoon and see how you get on . |
| 24 | Your ankle 's improving , so keep it that way . ’ |
| 25 | he only did it last year |
| 26 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 27 | ‘ But I only bought it last year , ’ he insisted , holding up the ancient object . |
| 28 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 29 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
| 30 | In fact , we would rather do it that way . |