Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 2 | It is worth £8 million and the gallery has had to purchase it through three annual instalments negotiated with the previous owners . |
| 3 | No-one has bothered to tax it since 1989 . |
| 4 | They went mad , they told us that we 'd got to take it to National Tyres , took it there , twenty three pound fifty it cost us . |
| 5 | Even the back pass could have been salvaged had Beeney realised how crap it was a second earlier , and even then , he could have tried to kick it to either side on Gray , as opposed to trying to kick it as hard as possible … straight at gray . |
| 6 | However , if the item in question was sent overseas then please wait at least one month before sending in the claim form to allow sufficient time for delivery , but do try to submit it within four months from the date of despatch , otherwise the Foreign Administration may no longer have a record of delivery . |
| 7 | I 've g I 've got about a half a dozen sheets of paper scattered all over the place , and I 've decided to do it in this cos then I can just go to here . |
| 8 | He had threatened to do it for some time , but only Hank had taken him seriously and tried to dissuade him . |
| 9 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 10 | One bit of me says well you 've got to , you 've got to do it like that . |
| 11 | you 've got to do it in four minutes |
| 12 | I think you 've got to do it in , and I think you 've got to do it in brilliant , er brilliant white . |
| 13 | Well we got er Mrs that was in she 's like , when she comes on phone you 've got to hold it like that . |
| 14 | Political influence is what the Other Side wants as much as anything and you 've got to meet it in that arena . |
| 15 | you 've got to have it like that |
| 16 | You 've got to start it at forty , the max you know , the last date , is n't it . |
| 17 | Would n't recommend masses into it , but because it 's no income potential , and it 's not that flexible , you 've got to keep it for five years to make it really work . |
| 18 | The next case we turned to was the question of ownership of the meadow ; I 've explained the confusion and the complications about ownership of the meadow because it nobody had bothered to register it until nineteen sixty six . |
| 19 | She had refused to believe it at first , her mind so full of him that her eyes kept on seeing him , playing tricks on her , raising false and cruel hopes . |
| 20 | I have a suspicion I 've wanted to do it for some time . ’ |
| 21 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the government published a report from its radioactive waste management advisory committee saying that BNFL had failed to supply it with sufficient information on its proposals to deal with waste arising from work carried out at THORP for foreign customers . |
| 23 | The non-smokers dislike the perpetual and pungent cloud , but have grown to accept it without serious complaint — it 's the least of their worries . |
| 24 | To really get to know a country , you need to get to know it in some detail , and to allow you the chance to know the fascinating world of Chianti , Citalia this summer offers its Flavour of Chianti programme . |
| 25 | We have tried to approach it through four general questions , about the core , boundaries , structure and culture of subjects . |
| 26 | Recently people have begun to contemplate it as possible fuel in muon catalysed fusion and it is from this that current interest derives . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , I believe that the CA approach can get us further with the study of code switching than other approaches tried so far , and it is on that basis that I have chosen to use it in this book . |