Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 2 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 3 | While attentive to the spirit of his reproach , it is not enough to retreat into the security of a duality — even a dialectic duality — in which difference is always already valorized against the corrosiveness of repetition ; but nor is it enough simply to reverse the poles and allow the current to run the other way . |
| 4 | For Chambers , his witness of doubtful character , he found this Nixonian endorsement : ‘ Is it not better to tell the whole truth in the end than to refuse , as Hiss did , to tell it at all ? ’ |
| 5 | All he had to do was wind it up again to find the way out . |
| 6 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 7 | Was it deep enough to sweep the vehicle over the edge ? |
| 8 | This conception of syntax as a kind of lexical auxiliary is explored in Chapter 5. 1 mention it here simply to illustrate the implications that might arise from the more considered interpretation of theoretical ideas . |
| 9 | Is it sometimes better to avoid the word ‘ deaf ’ ? |
| 10 | In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers . |