Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 32 | If you need urgent information you are invited to use the following telephone number but , please , only use it between 19.00 and 21.00 on Mondays to Thursdays and only if it is absolutely necessary … |
| 33 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 34 | Okay so try it with twelve first of all and then try it with twenty four |
| 35 | So try it like that and swing your mallet too so you wo n't be able to go above hoop three and |
| 36 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
| 37 | I 've got Mrs and I think we 'd better leave it at that . |
| 38 | better leave it at that had n't we ? |
| 39 | Well they thought they could only get it through both legislatures and the courts for women . |
| 40 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 41 | Fresh legislation would only drive it into some more objectionable form . |
| 42 | Like , all their films came , like Alex 's film of er Spain empties the camera basically puts it in this pile they keep in a drawer somewhere of films , okay ? |
| 43 | After I introduced the hemp earlier the fish seemed to go off the feed so I only introduced it for four or five casts . |
| 44 | And therefore your brain was trying to naturally put it into some context but it did n't go into any context so it was difficult |
| 45 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 46 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 47 | You only do it with those whom you know can take it , as Bill could take it , and as all the climbers with whom I grew up could take it , and hand it out . |
| 48 | They 're rich enough to pay for it and smart enough to get it for free . |
| 49 | Well thirty nine or forty all do it to thirty nine just to keep , so all have the same results . |
| 50 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 51 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 52 | So you 'd just write it as , I mean as it 's minus one , you can take it off as you go along , but it 's , sometimes it 'll be a minus six or something , so write it as two point nine nine squared minus one . |
| 53 | Again , the police ( who had only a marginal role in enforcing the new order , and who sometimes perhaps accepted it with less than utter enthusiasm ) were more likely to have diverse tribal allegiances in the larger settlements nearer the cities or in strategically more significant places . |
| 54 | Of course , the Bill includes provisions to allow the assigned band to be changed if the value of the property changes sufficiently to take it into another band . |
| 55 | We only had it at half past twelve . |
| 56 | You 'd have well basically timesed it by three . |
| 57 | She saw him pick up the sweater her parents had bought her for her birthday , then carelessly throw it to one side . |
| 58 | The picture of settlement development in the landscape , then , is a dynamic picture of great complexity , great age and constant change , but we only see it at one time . |
| 59 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 60 | We only have it on one bar , two bar |