Example sentences of "to [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we identify something we pin it down and are halfway to mastering it . |
| 2 | Davide was still committed to preferring it to the alternatives , the vendettas , the feuds , the bloody score -these ways were for barbarians , for people like Sicilians , or Neapolitans , people whose own blood was all mixed up with Spaniards ' . |
| 3 | I am about to acquire a C reg Range Rover EFi with a view to using it as my sleeping quarters on holiday . |
| 4 | Find I 'm down to using it twice a week now . |
| 5 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 6 | I use Preservene 's White Snow which is the cheapest soap powder on the Australian market though there is a knack to using it as it is slow to dissolve , being fine lumps of pure soap . |
| 7 | Despite their criticism , peer review is the method most commonly used within the Research Councils for evaluating the scientific contributions of their own staff , in addition to using it for the evaluation of research proposals . |
| 8 | Existing software which incorporates documentation procedures is being evaluated with a view to using it as a basis for this development . |
| 9 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 10 | ‘ Responsibility means accepting on assignment , being personally committed to seeing it through to success and , if necessary , being prepared to accept the consequences of failure . |
| 11 | He said , mildly , ‘ I am accustomed to seeing it filled with people , ma'am . ’ |
| 12 | The new mill is their baby and they 're looking forward to seeing it grow . |
| 13 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
| 14 | You get used to seeing it , right ? |
| 15 | ‘ I got tickets for it about a month ago and I 'm thoroughly looking forward to seeing it . ’ |
| 16 | Can you circulate that , the committee is accustomed to seeing it . |
| 17 | I had decided against Ecuador : people I had spoken to made it sound cosy , like Switzerland , and there was no easy way from it to Brazil . |
| 18 | Plenty of housing if those stupid farts at the council got round to repairing it and stopped their tenants tearing apart what they have got . |
| 19 | Stick to the knitting : identifying that which is done best and ensuring that every aspect of management is geared to maintaining it . |
| 20 | He told the gathered community that he was committed to proving it was not active in South Ronaldsay . |
| 21 | John Hargrave , the Quaker founder of the Kibbo Kift Kin , came nearest to bringing it all together when he began his book on the Kin with a quotation from the Taoist Lao-Tzu : ‘ production without possession , action without self-assertion , development without domination . ’ |
| 22 | INFLATION was the Government 's obsession , with everything directed to bringing it down . |
| 23 | Though the King 's Head deserves credit for mounting this version , its venue , unfortunately , is the biggest drawback to enjoying it . |
| 24 | ‘ I was telling him about the Glory , and I said I 'd driven it over and what did he think — was he looking forward to driving it and all that — ’ She paused excitedly . |
| 25 | The political and economic origins of this approach to soil conservation go a long way to explaining it . |
| 26 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 27 | Here was another example of the capriciousness and artificiality of our adversarial system of justice , geared as much to stifling the truth as to revealing it . |
| 28 | Often it is the internal logic of a process that is the real clue to understanding it . |
| 29 | Classifying an event is a necessary first step to understanding it , and in many cases may be entirely adequate as an explanation . |
| 30 | Yeah I mean she probably would be wise to mentioned it to her . |