Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't work out what that comes to , leave it as four squared plus one . |
| 2 | Okay , so I 'm going to do ten take away , now I 'll put some brackets where that six was I do n't want to write a six , I 'm going to write it as five add one . |
| 3 | Now I should be able to say ten take away , I 'm going to write six in here , instead of six I 'm going to put it as nine take away three . |
| 4 | Now all I can think of doing is pushing it , you can push the turner things into chips then you 've only got to chop them one way if you see what I mean , like erm , well is it worth these doing anything else ? |
| 5 | You 've got to be over there for eleven o'clock and you 've had it after that to get anywhere else |
| 6 | His argument that he was not displaying it towards another gains strength from the fact that , under section 18 ( which is explicitly concerned with the offence of stirring racial hatred ) the word ‘ display ’ is not similarly qualified . |
| 7 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 8 | She would n't put it past fitzAlan to read her mind . |
| 9 | It fears , and when it does not fear , it despises , non-conformity ; and if non-conformity must be allowed its say , it will gently rob it of all anger and all laughter , of all passion and all heartache , until it lacks both pith and point … |
| 10 | Secondary teachers find it of most use in changing priorities ( least , primary ) . |
| 11 | Once you 've trained it like that to test it on this pattern all you do is take the pack into the system and see whether you can |
| 12 | She had decided , in fact , to return the outfit , and Faye 's mentioning it like this forced the issue so that finally she found the courage to speak . |
| 13 | Carrots and meat and good stuff , and then they used to put a little flour to thicken it like this do you see , with a big spoon like that . |
| 14 | Giving an account of it like this makes me feel as though you 're asking me to account for it , explain it for you . |
| 15 | But expressing it like this makes it look as if there could be a quality of ‘ in-the-foot-ness ’ , and this is absurd since position is not a quality . |
| 16 | ‘ Michelet has strong emotions , and he smears what he feels on to paper without caring in the least how he does it , and without giving the slightest thought to technique or conventional forms — just shaping it into any form that can be understood by those who want to understand it . ’ |
| 17 | We saved them , they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that did n't you ? |
| 18 | One yearned for Richards to make the romantics smile by sending in two bowlers to polish them off , reflecting that when Percy Chapman did it with fifteen needed against Australia in 1928–9 ( and lost two wickets ! ) , |
| 19 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 20 | Murray also denies supplying heroin , offering to supply the class A drug and possessing it with intent to supply . |
| 21 | As Daubney felt that the box reeked of death , Ted decided to bum Aubrey 's old armchair and replace it with another to remove the visible signs of the tragedy . |
| 22 | What is it with these exploding , these joke-shop , these trick underpants ? |
| 23 | But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take . |
| 24 | However , the company 's real problem ( hardly unique to it in general publishing ) was not profitability , but cash flow . |
| 25 | The final reference to it in 1577 described it as being ‘ so utterly ruinated … that ( it ) hardly can be judged where ( it ) hath stood ’ . |
| 26 | Thus we agreed a way of phasing it in that reduced the cost of introduction but provided no disruption for those nearest retirement . |
| 27 | But there you 'd do it in three goes I mean , you could probably do it in two goes , but to be safe you could split it up into three goes so |
| 28 | With the move to the new system , we 're abolishing that subsidy , but we 're doing it in two goes : 50% of it this year and all of it will go next year . |
| 29 | You had to fold it in half to get it on . |
| 30 | Yeah , she gave me a Crunchie and I thought I bet it 's poison so I broke it in half gave them a bit , watched them eat it , gave it five minutes and then eat mine ! |