Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] it [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK side of TVS is being run down but it has a pile of cash and what could be highly profitable operations in the US via MTM . |
| 2 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 3 | Well it just winds up and it pushes a wedge forward and splays them out . |
| 4 | ‘ He says the whole army is unsettled because it 's known that Famagusta will never give up while it expects a relieving ship to arrive . |
| 5 | Mary pointed out that it takes a while to become objective and to look at yourself without flinching . |
| 6 | I am not complaining , only pointing out that it makes a difference to the tone of a campaign . |
| 7 | Guy Brousseau , who coined the expression ‘ didactic contract ’ , points out that it contains a paradoxical dilemma . |
| 8 | Lite is rather too ‘ lite ’ — many of the features have been stripped out and it has a very plain interface |