Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 2 | Making sure that Ryan was already inside , they entered , sat near him , and began a general chat about land , A saying to B , in a casual roundabout fashion , that if he had any land going in Norfolk to unload it quickly because the councils were clamping down on building regulations and that land in future was to be used for agricultural purposes only . ’ |
| 3 | Could I come when you take Marcus to see it ? |
| 4 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 5 | You may tell me why a young lady who , whatever she says , has never done any work in her life before , has come to the East End to find it . ’ |
| 6 | It urged the UN to lift the arms embargo against Bosnia-Hercegovina to enable it to defend itself , and to send peacekeeping forces to Bosnia 's borders with Serbia and Montenegro . |
| 7 | I went with Kathleen to see it a couple of days later . |
| 8 | I even got Ken to try it on us . |
| 9 | Press reports suggest that the new DOS will include a revised boot procedure , allowing you to bypass CONFIG.SYS to process it line by line . |
| 10 | Diana Campbell , herself a keen sailor despite being confined to a wheelchair for the last 45 years , dreamt up the idea of a specially adapted dinghy sailing boat in the early seventies , and persuaded Roderick Macalpine-Downie to design it . |
| 11 | Quietly but firmly interrupt him , and answer the question yourself ; or alternatively , deliberately ask someone other than Mr Know-All to answer it . |
| 12 | Once he has persuaded a certain colleague in the States to sell it to him . |
| 13 | Cray Research Inc. in Minnesota , which has traditionally asked university scientists in the United States to help it to develop software , hopes to work with European scientists to develop specific software . |
| 14 | ‘ He said Mr de Klerk wanted to produce a race federation and co-opt the ANC and Nelson Mandela to legitimise it . |
| 15 | Maj. Botha believed that it was of " cardinal importance " that the rally should prove a success and that a " donation " should be made to Inkatha to finance it . |
| 16 | Wait for Lucy to do it and then we 'll read it out . |
| 17 | He , sh she ought to learn to sh she 's , they was all on about how Shrimpy ca n't stick up for himself , and then flaming Emma does exactly the same but worse cos she gets Scott to do it for her . |
| 18 | The road ahead was narrow ; a signpost flashed past them , too quickly for Lucy to read it . |
| 19 | ‘ Or trying to persuade Mrs Abberley to keep it to yourselves ? ’ |
| 20 | Yeltsin , however , refused to suspend the decree during the investigation , and warned that any attempt by Gorbachev to countermand it would result in renewed antagonism . |
| 21 | When the opportunity to acquire Mothercare arose , the Dutchman encouraged Conran to seize it with both hands . |
| 22 | ‘ The photographer thought it was a great prop but wanted David to hold it . |
| 23 | and got Johnny to finish it . |
| 24 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 25 | You got until the Saturday to pay it , but if you paid it then that let you get the turn of the leaf and get more stuff for the next quarter . |
| 26 | Many times after cooking and cleaning there , she would have to bring suitcases of washing back to our house in Taibach to get it ready for the next visit . |
| 27 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 28 | And this is actually from Bruges , I actually went to Bruges to get it er and this is a copy of something which er a direct cast of something which is still in Bruges . |
| 29 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 30 | The American Lung Association has said it will sue the EPA to get it to revise the standards on particle pollution but many scientists argue that more data is needed before the effects of the pollution is properly understood . |