Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Meanwhile , the company is bragging that it 's having trouble dumbing down the Alpha chip to make it slow enough to sell against the 80486 . |
| 32 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 33 | She said it deliberately firmly to hide her hurt . |
| 34 | you would have done it early enough to say , oh well , we can invite somebody else . |
| 35 | What I suspect is that he was inspecting the binding and moved the candle to study it more closely to see if there was a gap between the cover and its backing : underneath the candle flame the writing must have appeared . ’ |
| 36 | His only complaint is that the technique is so simple that other researchers will be able to duplicate it quickly enough to keep up with his group . |
| 37 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 38 | All he had to do was wind it up again to find the way out . |
| 39 | In the Sonnet just quoted , Britten breaks off the rhythm only near the end , with a few sustained chords , before taking it up again to come to a strong conclusion . |
| 40 | I bet he 's not tightened it up properly to seal it . |
| 41 | Pete apparently Pete made it up just to get erm get at her . |
| 42 | ‘ But do n't foul it up just to prove I 'm right . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Like your party trick with the neutrino collectors and the hymetusite : we could n't have scaled it up enough to solve Earth 's energy shortfall , but it could have supported us here whilst we searched for the long-term solution — the high-mass elements in Lucifer 's core . ’ |
| 44 | The phone rings in the night , you pick it up only to hear heavy breathing , silence or a volley of screamed obscenities . |
| 45 | Only so can he choose whether to stay in it or leave , only so can he ever see it clearly enough to try to change it . |
| 46 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |
| 47 | With great magicians I 'll sit and converse , the whole universe would seem like a little pond , deer would swim by and as it swam by , ravage by war neglect and in great pain , I 'll take it out just to wipe its poor face clean and then quietly put it back again , if I worked magic , magic |
| 48 | I disclose it now only to help you save your niece . |
| 49 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 50 | Its original purpose was to enable us to turn our work so that we could rehang it with the plain side towards us , knit a few rows of reversed stocking stitch and then turn it back again to continue in stocking stitch or pattern . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | Was it deep enough to sweep the vehicle over the edge ? |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ They ca n't fake it well enough to fool a forensic laboratory . |
| 55 | To understand the world , then , and understand it well enough to contrive to live in it , there is no one way : not fact , not theory , not particularity , not abstraction ; and explanations of whatever kind are not universal answers , merely part of a progressive and accumulative act of learning and knowing . |
| 56 | So by the time he was fourteen he could speak it well enough to ask to be sent to normal high school in Paris . |
| 57 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 58 | I do n't I do n't really know it well enough to tell you what a nitrogen cycle . |
| 59 | and then they did n't build it well enough to withstand fire |
| 60 | It even OK to sleep with her — whether you 're still together in the same house or living apart . |