Example sentences of "[prep] it as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 You see , it 's not just speaking in other tongues , there is gon na become the evidence of it as well as we grow in him .
2 Fig 99 C is sailing in A's dirty wind and must get out of it as soon as possible by either tacking or bearing away .
3 ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’
4 ‘ He was n't hurt and that 's the end of it as far as he 's concerned . ’
5 If that golf-club was used to attack Alain , the killer would want to get rid of it as quickly as possible . ’
6 I ran towards it as fast as I could — and found an old man with a lantern .
7 You 're here to do a job , get on with it as unemotionally as possible .
8 Still , she had brought it upon herself , and must go through with it as cheerfully as possible .
9 We are dealing with it as well as we can in the circumstances and are beginning to have some real effect .
10 Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work .
11 But I want to get on with it as soon as possible , to see if there 's anything to identify him .
12 If your child is ill , try to think about that separately from your other problems , and to deal with it as rationally as possible .
13 Colour 's got nothing to do with it as far as I 'm concerned .
14 ‘ Not I. You might as well call it Trouble up at t'Mill and have done with it as far as I 'm concerned .
15 I 'm sure that Jack himself ( who did n't really exploit its potential ) would defer to the earlier use of the model by Jet Harris , who recorded with it as early as April 1962 , a few weeks after he had left The Shadows .
16 Given the CEGB 's assertion that it might take ‘ decades or even centuries ’ for soils to recover , Robert Jones MP wanted to know , ‘ is that not all the more reason for getting on with it as quickly as possible and on as wide a scale as possible ? ,
17 That I support the addition that that we that we should get on with it as quickly as possible and I suppose also that I regret the support that the request for an extra thirty seven thousand or whatever it is pounds in order to enable that to be carried out .
18 Ride along with it as philosophically as you can , and try not to take your own hurt feelings or sense of irritation out on your mother-in-law , as this will only lead to unhappiness for you all .
19 Sikes took out his gun , but realizing , even in his madness , that a shot might be heard , he beat her twice across the face with it as hard as he could .
20 The heart of the matter is the provision of a physical and social environment through which the members of society may gradually withdraw from it as securely and as worthily as they enter it through the environment of home and education .
21 He 'll drop you in it as fast as he can if it will help him , Luke ! ’
22 I had never been awake in it as early as that before .
23 wished to persuade the Company to build the Mitcham — Sutton line included in their original powers and then permit them to run over it as far as St. Helier , as an extension of their Mitcham service .
24 I was speeding toward it as fast as gravity could take me .
25 For example , a centred heading above justified text would become blocked at the left-hand margin if Alt+P was applied to it as well as to the text below .
26 If you have a strong proposition to put to the consumer , it certainly makes sense to draw attention to it as strongly as possible , and the headline might be the right place to do it .
27 she decided to put an end to it as gently as possible .
28 ‘ Rome-you 're welcome to it as far as I 'm concerned , ’ said Mervyn spitefully , the day before Ianthe was due to leave with the party from St Basil 's .
29 Yet he deposited her on it as carefully as if she were china , and that brought a weak tear to her eye .
30 Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter .
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