Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 2 | Last week a Department of Environment inspector heard a planning appeal seeking to change it into a nursing home . |
| 3 | Mr Cruickshank has spent just over three years in charge of the Scottish health service and has helped set it on the Government 's controversial road to self-governing hospitals and fund-holding family doctor practices . |
| 4 | The machine can completely fail to work because no-one has bothered to test it before the day . |
| 5 | Where an application under the Act for a grant or renewal of a licence or extension of permitted hours , etc. , is submitted too late for consideration by a board at a particular meeting , and the applicant has been rejected by the clerk , who has refused to place it before the board for their consideration , that decision may be subject to appeal under either 5.39 ( see M. Milne Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 ) if the particular application was subject to an appeal under 5.39 or to a judicial review if the type of application does not allow of an appeal under 5.39 ( see Main v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 305 ; Tait v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 340 ) . |
| 6 | And I wo n't think , said Fenella , even for an instant , that the Robe might not be here , that the Robemaker might need to return to weave it on the great Silver Looms . |
| 7 | In many respects , the moral problems that America has have turned it into a street of shame . |
| 8 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 9 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd have had to have taken it during the meal or shortly after . |
| 11 | The organization carried out a bank robbery in Castellón on July 12 which was thought to have provided it with the means to launch a new offensive , and was held responsible for wounding two Army officers in Madrid on Dec. 13 and Valencia on Dec. 15 , for killing a police officer in Barcelona on Dec. 18 and for killing two Civil Guards in Gijón , northern Spain , on Dec. 28 . |
| 12 | But soon — perhaps very soon — I am going to have to lay it on the line , tell them what really has been happening … |
| 13 | was going to say check it in the book but I gave you wrong one . |
| 14 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 15 | ‘ I LEFT the place having helped to transport it from a snotty-nosed , public-school-type club to a place where people from all levels of society came to enjoy cricket . ’ |
| 16 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 17 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 18 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 19 | In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party . |
| 20 | What we will never know is what price Ford will have to pay to get it to the top spot . |
| 21 | If we were to use the word ‘ God ’ to mean something subject to change we would have ceased to use it in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic sense to refer to the mystery of Creation . |
| 22 | The sale of beer by the gaoler in late eighteenth-century Britain was apparently universal — Howard called it the ‘ tap ’ and seems to have regarded it as a necessary evil . |
| 23 | Otherwise , it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment . |
| 24 | This last work was never finished : Mozart seems to have written it as an act of thanksgiving for his marriage , intending Constanze herself to sing as soprano soloist . |
| 25 | ‘ Heather seems to have taken it as a confirmation of her belief in the significance of the Tyrrell Society . ’ |
| 26 | Together with its stultifying racial enmities , this seems to have brought it to a halt , and placed it beyond history . |
| 27 | The top fits really snugly over the teat and keeps it sterile , so you do n't have to bother inverting it into the bottle . |
| 28 | Americans I have known have seen it as a kind of Whitney , but that 's not really right . |
| 29 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 30 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |