Example sentences of "it a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
2 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
3 | A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches . |
4 | A dense darkness you could touch , the whirring din of the coal-cutting machine , throwing into the air black dust so thick that the light beams from the miners ’ lamps could only shine into it a few inches — the impression of numberless , short pit props placed only a foot or two apart , to support above them a mile 's weight of rock and earth ceiling — all this in the stifling heat . |
5 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
6 | Most young people who try sniffing ( and remember , those who try sniffing are only a small minority ) will only do it a few times and stop without any help from adults . |
7 | The bistable will set or reset — try it a few times . |
8 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
9 | A vowel No I 've heard it a few times |
10 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
11 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
12 | We 'll try it a few times just to put it all into practice . |
13 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |
14 | and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times |
15 | And we saw it a few times did n't we ? |
16 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
17 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |
18 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
19 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
20 | When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty . |
21 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
22 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
23 | I weighed it a few minutes later and was delighted , to say the least , when it pulled the needle round to 10lb 3oz . |
24 | ‘ You as good as admitted it a few moments ago , although your opinion of Elise does n't coincide with mine … |
25 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
26 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
27 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
28 | ‘ Let's give it a few days . |
29 | He bought it a few days ago . |
30 | Give it a few months , goes the cheery Tory argument . |