Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 2 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 3 | We stick it on with a hot glue gun . |
| 4 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 5 | Quality manufacturers will offer sacks with a ‘ fixed back length ’ in several different sizes , so be sure your pack fits correctly and try it on with a realistic load before buying . |
| 6 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 7 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 8 | Even if the herb will eventually outgrow its container , you can still plant it when young , press its foliage and then , when it becomes too large , pass it on to a culinary-minded friend who has more space . |
| 9 | I launched it on to a small lake and , lying flat on its wooden platform , pressed my face close to the water . |
| 10 | Panther claims it will blast the Solo from standstill to 60mph in less than 6.0 seconds and take it on to a top speed in excess of 150mph . |
| 11 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |
| 12 | Otherwise passing it on to a third party , but you 're not in the case of a married couple . |
| 13 | Find a large map of the world and trace it on to a large piece of paper . |
| 14 | If anyones around leeds at the time the two pubs I would suggest going to watch it are The Pack horse in town ( where they put it on in a private room upstairs for our convenience ) or the Fav up near the Uni where they have about 20 screens and away fans get regularly beat up ! ! ! ! |
| 15 | You often find that erm television with sex and everything , they always put it on after a certain time for children go to bed . |
| 16 | As I unravelled the yarn , I wound it loosely around a single bed headboard , knitting the ends together as I went along . |
| 17 | I thought , ‘ If I 'm going to sing this album , I 'm going to have to work at it , ’ and I treated it rather like a weight-training program — I went in there , sung my guts out and tried to reach further every day . |
| 18 | The driver tapped it nervously with a forefinger to guide the man 's eyes to it . |
| 19 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 20 | The present challenges are : to design plants capable of making it economically on a large scale from coal ; to explore the potential of syn-gas ; and to develop its use in the production of basic chemicals . |
| 21 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 22 | It contains at least 40 stars , but binoculars show it only as a dim , slightly elliptical object of low surface brightness . |
| 23 | This rarely happens but if the same ferret continues to do this it is advisable to discard it or use it only as a muzzled ferret . |
| 24 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 755 ) Beornred succeeded to the kingdom on the death of Aethelbald but held it only for a short time and unhappily . |
| 25 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 26 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 27 | ( ii ) They should be shown how to locate material from a range of sources , eg subject-specific reference books , adult encyclopaedias and databases , how to select material by deploying the appropriate reading strategy , how to evaluate it and how to draw it together into a coherent package . |
| 28 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 29 | Snorting angrily , he picked it up and read it aloud in a contemptuous voice : " Shareholders demand immediate explanation why production tonnage down last month . |
| 30 | Now at the beginning of the year , I have no idea how this particular week in November is going to pan out , so I ca n't put it in for a specific day , but I put it in on the Sunday , because it 's specific to that week . |