Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK Environment Secretary , Michael Howard , announced on April 30 that the target for stabilizing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels had been brought forward from 2005 to 2000 , thereby bringing it into line with the EC position . |
| 2 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 3 | You need only contrast it with cricket , a complex game over- burdened by social attitudes and codes , and dependent upon specific items of equipment to make it work , to understand how accessible football must have seemed . |
| 4 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 5 | The child who 's been burned learns to fear fire and so to treat it with respect . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | In the wild most of the eggs or fry of this type of spawner are eaten , but just enough make it to adulthood to keep the population steady . |
| 8 | Why was it you only got it at places like fairs and the seaside ? |
| 9 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 10 | When the true meaning of the custom had been forgotten , and the maypole had become merely a part of the holiday festivities , people saw no reason for felling a new tree every year and began to leave one erected permanently , merely decking it with flowers and fresh greenery on Mayday . |
| 11 | After apparently driving it to France , Roche nonetheless assured everyone that the dioxin was safe — up until two weeks ago , when it started offering to retrieve it ‘ if it is not ’ . |
| 12 | The traffic queue into London stretched back miles , for a sewer had collapsed in the centre of Wandsworth and gangs of workmen were tearing up the shattered road , apparently rebuilding it from scratch . |
| 13 | I do n't want to stifle discussion , but had n't we better confine it to matters within the competence of this committee ? |
| 14 | And we only found it by chance , you know how you go off to think oh I 'll , I 'll go and find a coffee or something , and we found this restaurant at lunch time and had a coffee there and we looked at the menu and , you know , we , we could n't believe it ! |
| 15 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 16 | They only want it for games do they ? |
| 17 | One it so build it in brick in the traditional manner , bonding it into the existing wall as you go . |
| 18 | And the Attorney-General can only act if there is a complaint about sentence within 28 days of the verdict and can only refer it for review on grounds of leniency . |
| 19 | Celeriac has a rough , thick exterior , so cut it into pieces before peeling and drop into acidulated water to prevent browning . |
| 20 | The original American legislation was only for women , and they made in fact some very erm convoluted and not very satisfactory arguments about why they should only do it for women . |
| 21 | While dream incorporations are explained by the psychoanalytic model , it could also be that only stimuli which fail to arouse the brain sufficiently to tip it into wakefulness result in dream incorporation , rather than that the dream incorporation results in continued sleeping . |
| 22 | So we are going to give it a lot of coverage , and obviously put it in places like the information centre . |
| 23 | " Better send it to Hoggatt 's " . |
| 24 | To classify and measure the extent of immorality — to quite literally put it into discourse — was central to getting the problem under control . |
| 25 | Divorce is common and easily obtained by men : women can only achieve it with difficulty . |
| 26 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 27 | This contrast with the previous medieval/religious paradigm where the purpose of life was the salvation of the soul and man had no need to understand the physical universe , only to celebrate it as God 's creation . |
| 28 | The Duc de Choiseul did not expect to occupy England , much less incorporate it in Louis XV 's empire , but merely to distract his enemy from further conquests overseas and encourage an early peace . |
| 29 | So you can only see it on paper . |
| 30 | Cecilia could clearly remember the days before refrigerators were in general use — she did not have one until 1952 — and remember too the smell of the joint by Sunday lunchtime if you had been imprudent enough to buy it on Friday . |