Example sentences of "[vb base] it [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We see companies rethinking how they can manage product design , how they can help people communicate between different groups in a company , how they can eliminate printed information and let people see information electronically and browse it exactly the way they want , or how they can keep track of their customers in a better way . ’ |
2 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
3 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
4 | ‘ Good job you do , ’ she went on , ‘ because I cook it once a week to give the tins a good clean out . ’ |
5 | Right , well nothing 's happened here , let's just stick a bunsen under it , warm it up a bit , get it moving . |
6 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
7 | See twice the size , it wants twice say the it 's nine inch and you want it twice the size the canvas wants to be eighteen inch does n't it ? |
8 | It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit . |
9 | ‘ Perhaps I put it on a bit , but that 's a bad house . ’ |
10 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
11 | the next meeting in March , with very good reason , it clashes with a conference that needs to attend so we 're proposing , with your agreement , that we put it forward a week to the seventeenth of March , is that a problem for anybody ? |
12 | Er well I left the stuffing cos I , I did n't think I 'd left it in long enough , I put it in a bit late and I thought we 'd leave the stuffing . |
13 | Put it down a bit ! |
14 | Put it down a bit . |
15 | Put it down a little bit more . |
16 | And instead , instead of telling the woman I I pretended to eat it could n't finish it I put it down the lift shaft . |
17 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
18 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
19 | Always put it about a bit , Steenie . |
20 | ‘ I was only six , so the art direction let it down a bit , really . |
21 | Different levels of comedy is where they actually break it up a bit which erm |
22 | Break it up a bit . |
23 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
24 | Break it down a bit to something that 's a bit easier |
25 | Flagwavers , flag-wearers and flag-burners — from JIMI HENDRIX and THE NICE , through THE DOORS and THE WHO , to SONIC YOUTH and THE MANICS , they 've all run it up the flagpole to see who salutes . |
26 | Well you 're gon na have to put the wire down , run it down the bottom |
27 | well it 's , it 's it 's on at one o'clock , one o'clock and er it 's on erm half past six tonight , well I 've taped it at half past six tonight and after everybody 's watched the news I 've , I watched it after , er , you know , so , I watch it then an hour |
28 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
29 | Lick your toe and wave it around a bit . |
30 | Sup it out the saucer . |