Example sentences of "it [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river .
2 And was it mostly the bigger farms that wanted you
3 Was it mostly the bigger farms or did the peedie ones
4 It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time .
5 ‘ Do it right the first time , ’ is probably the best and shortest way to sum up the quality improvement process .
6 No , oh you had it right the first time , oh no you did n't , you need a face , find a face , look .
7 Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison .
8 This pulsar is a compact neutron star , which rotates 642 times every second , and the detection makes it only the third pulsar known to emit light .
9 My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side .
10 Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ .
11 Yeah I know , you know , there 'll be two pound postage on it you can guarantee on it so the crafty devils they are
12 Turn the right side ( smooth side of knitting ) to the inside and fold it so the two side edges of the knitting can be sewn together to make a tube .
13 Oh I put it down the other end .
14 made it down the right hand side , he 's wearing number eleven but he came down the right hand side on this occasion and er a deep cross , he pulled it back brilliantly and who 'd missed that earlier header was there and could n't really miss on this occasion , but it was a fine header by him .
15 He slid the ramrod out , jammed it down the long barrel , then pulled it free .
16 As a matter of interest on the raffle side , David , is it basically the two pound fifty person that buys the majority of the raffle tickets ?
17 .. ’ Nor is it merely the heavy stuff which comes with serious credentials .
18 Presumably one reason why people doing something is they did n't do it enough the first time , or they did n't do it properly , or they did n't do it successfully and therefore they 've got ta keep doing it .
19 ‘ We read about it just the other day .
20 is , is it , is it just the second year that has erm , perhaps it not
21 you used to sing the weddings and that type of thing , or was it just the normal Sunday service ?
22 Is this the full P A though or is it just the speaking P A ?
23 And is it not the best wood for coffins ?
24 Was it not the third Wednesday ?
25 It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ?
26 Is it not the very catholicity of the Church which is in question ?
27 Well that 's right , give it away the first part of the question
28 As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return .
29 Yes , fifty given it exactly the same way .
30 In fact subjects generally found it relatively easy to understand the rating required and found no difficulty in using it thus the general conclusion from this study is that drivers do report fluctuating levels of subjective risk .
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