Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 2 | In a field landing it often happens that on the final approach or even during the hold off you realise that the first part of the field is not as smooth as it is further along . |
| 3 | Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away . |
| 4 | By 1871 a photograph shows it little changed . |
| 5 | Clearly , when is comes to your day 's takings , it would be a crime to bank it anywhere else . |
| 6 | ‘ There could be literally a multitude of quite proper reasons why a child decided it no longer wanted to live with its parents . ’ |
| 7 | And they 've got a machine to do it anyway to work it all out , print it all out . |
| 8 | and we kept the homes small , about twenty in a home to make it more like home-like and not institution . |
| 9 | A cobbler make it Okay go again . |
| 10 | ‘ Sorry , but if there was a vehicle involved it probably came from there . |
| 11 | If you 're asking a civil engineer to do some work for you i if that civil engineer has a degree does it automatically mean that the work 's going to be perfect and wonderful ? |
| 12 | He was the first to concede that on occasions a judge got it wrong to the extent that a sentence was passed which was wholly unacceptable . |
| 13 | In the context of Conversation E , then , using Creole to express a refusal marks it as " jocular " and non-threatening , just as laughter , delay and offering an excuse ( or " alternative " ) were used earlier to mark another refusal as non-threatening . |
| 14 | As a county we seem to have a need to make it as hard to succeed as we can . |
| 15 | It was all possible , though it took a war to make it so . |
| 16 | ‘ As may be supposed ’ , he wrote , ‘ the sight of a bird of such beauty , which , moreover , was entirely new to me , excited so strong a desire to possess it that scarcely a moment elapsed before it was dead and in my hand . ’ |
| 17 | I 've had to get a padlock to lock it away . |
| 18 | Where the Act applies a reasonableness test it generally provides that a party can not exclude or restrict liability " except in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss2 , 3 , 4 ) or that liability can be excluded or restricted " but only in so far as the term satisfies the test of reasonableness " ( ss6 , 7 ) . |
| 19 | A BURGLAR stole a hi-fi from a house in Sunderland and then ordered a taxi to take it home . |
| 20 | If you ca n't , but would n't mind keeping the draft till you 're in Prague ( it 's good for six months ) , it may be less of a hassle cashing it there , especially as the bank in Brno may charge you something for the transaction . |
| 21 | Ask a friend to read it slowly and quietly , leaving about ten seconds between each sentence . |
| 22 | This consists of acquiring firmlet F , a supplier or customer to C 's existing firmlet G , and is commonly justified on the grounds that the internalisation of such a relationship makes it more intimate , more dedicated , more secure and therefore more effective . |
| 23 | Rincewind did n't get a chance to see it properly . |
| 24 | Finally I dragged myself away , telling myself that I 'd get a chance to use it properly soon enough . |
| 25 | look who 's doing the whole lot apparently he just had to do , he just had to model that , he did n't get a chance to do it properly |
| 26 | Then you can get a chance to do it again in your book . |
| 27 | Do you have a chance to do it much here ? |
| 28 | Yet in insisting , as many bankers do , that outsiders can not grasp their special business , bankers themselves are missing a chance to understand it better . |
| 29 | Er , Madam Speaker I 'm very much aware of the case that the my honourable friend has er mentioned because he has written to me er about it and I have looked into the circumstances er of it and I understand that the employment service have made no final decision on that particular site and I 'd be happy to respond to my honourable friend er once I 've had a chance to discuss it further with the Chief Executive of the employment service whose responsibility it is but if I could just say to my honourable friend the principle of integrating er the work of the job centre and the payment of benefits on one site is a good one which is for the convenience of er people who make use of the job centres er and er as er er the honourable er gentleman , the member for Workington is indicating from a sedentary position , was a recommendation which was supported by the public accounts er committee and I believe and I believe that it er makes sense to proceed on a value for money basis with this policy but I will certainly look at the particular example in my honourable friend 's constituency with interest . |
| 30 | The presence of feldspar grains within a sandstone renders it more susceptible to change during diagenesis as alteration , replacement or dissolution of these grains may take place . |