Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
2 | He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck . |
3 | I stuck it on with silicone sealant glue and it is unaffected by salt spray or moderate heat . |
4 | I have discussed this with Simon and have passed it on to Paul Ralph for him to gather the components together for you . |
5 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
6 | He turned the block over to ‘ train online ’ , warned it on to Bradley Fold Station and pulled his signals off . |
7 | The former Spurs full-back , whose Wimbledon team were among the originators of the direct approach , complained : ‘ Leeds hoofed the ball about 50 times further than we ever did and relied on John Lukic knocking it on to Lee Chapman 's head for about 70 per cent of their attacks . ’ |
8 | We know he will enjoy watching the sports programmes despite the fact that Bristol Rovers football team have not quite made it on to Sky TV yet ! is well know for being a keen supporter of Bristol Rovers , a fact which did not go unrecognised by who presented him with a beautiful jugglers top hat in his favourite team 's colours . |
9 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
10 | Wrexham 's Labour MP , Dr John Marek , received part of the petition containing over 1,000 signatures at the weekend and will pass it on to Mr Cook in the Commons . |
11 | Huxtable also carried out experiments to test the possibilities of disposing of urban sewage by pumping it on to farm land . |
12 | When I tried it on in Harvey Nichols it looked all right , but now I see it out here I realize how stupid and childish it looks . ’ |
13 | I 'll make it right with Mrs Bradford for you to have time off next Sunday , then you must go and listen to them . ’ |
14 | Now , if youre gon na do summink , do it right for christs sake . |
15 | thing but we linked it right into Christmas decorations and how they would build them and how they 'd make them , and how difficult it was and to actually make something that looked er , reasonably good |
16 | We believe that by circulating it widely to politicians decision-makers in both the public and private sectors , journalists , other voluntary bodies and so on , we will be doing the best we can to raise awareness and interest in sustainability . |
17 | Its contract expired earlier this month , but last year an independent consultancy recommended California replace its existing system , it had already purchased it outright from G Tec for sixty million dollars . |
18 | For example , a contravention of this principle would occur if an organisation were to register the holding of personal data for purposes of personnel management , and use it additionally for marketing purposes . |
19 | Furthermore the term register is sometimes used to refer to any device which holds a group of one or more bits of information , and which is capable of being accessed at electronic speeds : in this book we use it only for storage devices provided for some special purpose ( such as the SAR ) , and do not apply it to a general store location . |
20 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
21 | Another exercise to practise the difference of stress and syllable timing , would be to take any paragraph of text , mark the main stresses and read it aloud with stress timing . |
22 | And if that does n't sound better than a Paul Daniels tape , I 'll eat my copy of Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simons . |
23 | Now I 've well I 'm trading it in on Saturday night . |
24 | Supposed to take it in for M O T. |
25 | just put it in for Thursday morning , see what |
26 | What is extraordinary is that Chris Trump is raking it in with nature table whimsy , rather than oil , beer , or newspapers . |
27 | He had informed his silent audience of the death — just ‘ death ’ — of Dr Kemp ; explained that in order to establish the , er , totality of events , it would be necessary for everyone to complete a little questionnaire ( duly distributed ) , sign and date it , and hand it in to Sergeant Lewis ; that the departure of the coach would have to be postponed until late afternoon , perhaps , with lunch by courtesy of The Randolph ; that Mr Cedric Downes had volunteered to fix something up for that morning , from about 10.45 to 12.15 ; that ( in Morse 's opinion ) activity was a splendid antidote to adversity , and that it was his hope that all the group would avail themselves of Mr Downes 's kind offer ; that if they could all think back to the previous day 's events and try to recall anything , however seemingly insignificant , that might have appeared unusual , surprising , out-of-character — well , that was often just the sort of thing that got criminal cases solved . |
28 | throw it down as ground bait |
29 | Gradually vanishing , as governments grow more sensitive and put it down as summer diarrhoea . |
30 | You have started with a high level concept and broken it down into component parts . |