Example sentences of "it [adj] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We we should discuss a bit about this document and I too have had the er dubious honour of reading John Major 's speech and it 's nice to see that both Tory speakers have actually managed to take half of it each and paraphrase it . |
| 2 | Yeah , then you better pricing it low and getting rid of it then too high and . |
| 3 | The blade of the club hits the top half of the ball , sending it low and running through the green ( lower line below ) . |
| 4 | Headline of the week so far comes from Reuter , which says MICROSOFT SHIPS WIDOWS IN JAPANESE , but the truth is that Microsoft Corp said the Japanese-language edition of the Windows operating system version 3.1 is now being shipped , adding that it is the first retail version for personal computers to be introduced in Japan , and that 24 of the OEM customers supporting Windows in Japan are offering it pre-installed and preconfigured on their machines as part of Microsoft 's Windows Ready-to-Run programme ; Microsoft is also set with Windows 3.1 in Korean and Chinese . |
| 5 | She spoke of tears at times until they got it right but accepted the suffering as he had no favourites and called them all his ‘ dolly girls ’ . |
| 6 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 7 | ‘ I just want to get it right and make sure I do the best for each of the students in my charge . ’ |
| 8 | The Government wanted to get it right and ensure genuine competition . |
| 9 | Which is pretty much what happens , although one of the new jumpers does n't quite get it right and ends up doing an unscheduled , but spectacular stunt . |
| 10 | I tried very hard to get it right and satisfy her . |
| 11 | That was my understanding and I got it right and discussed it with him |
| 12 | I mean were , was it sore or burning ? |
| 13 | Does it make it impersonal and stilted , lacking in conviction ? |
| 14 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 15 | Some tribes in Polynesia believe that soaking the penis in pepper and vinegar keeps it strong and alert . |
| 16 | Ah but what it means , I 've got to walk around and look at it this and look at it that ! |
| 17 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 18 | We all found it interesting and enlightening and are grateful to — head brewer and — brewing manager . |
| 19 | The secret is to keep it varied , keep it interesting and enjoy it . |
| 20 | Old Jane had n't take enough trouble to make it proper and wash all the buttermilk out . |
| 21 | Indeed , Hamilton suggested crisply that they had got it wrong and left it at that . |
| 22 | Sonia Heywood , assistant director ( child care ) for Wiltshire SSD , expressed some of her staff 's worries about getting it wrong and mishandling the whole issue . |
| 23 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 24 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 25 | I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me . |
| 26 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 27 | Gorbachev , in his own contribution to the discussion , spoke of a ‘ civil society of free men and women ’ which would replace the ‘ Stalinist model ’ of the past ; continuing the work of the 20th Congress of 1956 , its purpose was to ‘ profoundly democratise and humanise society , to make it free and create living conditions worthy of a human being ’ . |
| 28 | Meredith pulled it free and opened it up . |
| 29 | ‘ The idea is to make it easier and try to get a good picture of how they feel about their own health . |
| 30 | This is partially true , but the motivations for saying ‘ quack ’ , the kind of quack a duck makes , the social message that is being conveyed — fear , alarm , pain , surprise , contentment , ‘ Come here ’ , ‘ Go away ’ , ‘ Look what I 've found ’ — this all requires a mind behind the larynx to make it express or utter the intent and feeling within the duck 's mind , to give the quack the correct inflection and intonation . |