Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send it on soon and work to a deadline |
| 2 | He took off his trench coat , shivered in the cold , shook the dirt off the coat , put it on again and slipped behind the wheel . |
| 3 | He moved it gently forward and saw that the grate had , in fact , been recently used ; someone had tried to burn a diary . |
| 4 | Martin watched the child flick it gently away and made a mental note to see the landlord about getting the house stoved . |
| 5 | Edberg sees the ball so early , hits it so sweetly and executes his shots so effectively , that one suspects that he could easily defy any West Indian or Australian pace attack . |
| 6 | He says it is natural for an artist to be concerned with the environment , as he 's exposed to it so often when working outside . |
| 7 | I thereupon emptied it , tore it apart , carried it into the Drawing room , put it together again and restored the contents . |
| 8 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 9 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 10 | You lower it in gently and sloosh it about so that the acid covers the surface . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I took it in yesterday and asked for it to be repaired as soon as possible . |
| 12 | By treating the rebels as equals , PNG appears to be conceding it in all but name . |
| 13 | Either pull it down completely or do something quickly . |
| 14 | As we made our way down towards Butter Tubs Pass following the boundary fence , Bill found the head of a freshly killed grouse , possibly the work of a fox , and refused to put it down again but walked along with it head first in his mouth , the neck feathers sticking out like a shuttlecock . |
| 15 | Drain it down again and refill it once more with fresh water , closing air vents one by one as radiators fill up . |
| 16 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 17 | Scathach led the way to the gate , pulled it down again and mounted his own horse . |
| 18 | After a few seconds she drew it down again and strained her ears . |
| 19 | She placed it down again and sank a little into herself . |
| 20 | Then he laid it down again and sat back in his seat , resting his dark head lightly against the cushions . |
| 21 | But you ca n't even leave it down here and pick it up later |
| 22 | In Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris Lord Denning MR said that by construing a restriction according to the object and intent rule the courts refuse to hold a covenant bad merely because of unskilful drafting and will cut it down so as to reveal its essential reasonableness . |
| 23 | If you do n't want to finish it just put it down there and keep quiet . |
| 24 | If you thought what the people said possessed an intrinsic interest , if you wrote it down verbatim and pictured yourself as a sort of secretary to the outside world , recording something which had its own imaginative value but would otherwise have been lost , then you are one sort of writer — a naturalist . |
| 25 | You know I think we 've gone over it long enough and leave it to see the er |
| 26 | An invitation to sing in the cathedral encourages parishes to see it not only as providing expertise but also as receiving what other musicians can provide . |
| 27 | To his everlasting credit , Ritchie , instead of having the intruder thrown out , read it through carefully and promised to hand it personally to Auchinleck . |
| 28 | I 'm very surprised your attitude is that we should cover it up and hide it away rather than try and elucidate its value for science . |
| 29 | Had they taken it away so as to fool him ! |
| 30 | I suppose he 'll take it easy now and try to strengthen up for the winter |