Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 3 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 4 | Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and . |
| 5 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 6 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 7 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 8 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |
| 9 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 10 | See here , they 're gon na get thirty six for it as it stands put it on the market as |
| 11 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 12 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 13 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 14 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 15 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 16 | It 's an antique and that bloke 's an antique dealer , he 's come to nick it off the line and flog it for thousands . |
| 17 | Store has got it in the can |
| 18 | the best thing you want to stick it in the room and put a heater . |
| 19 | The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen . |
| 20 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 21 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 22 | Erm on the understanding that for any Green Party members that want to use it over the conference . |
| 23 | ‘ And I want to use it in the plot for my new novel , ’ Melissa continued . |
| 24 | You want to put it in the fridge ? |
| 25 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 26 | He has raised it with the contractor . |
| 27 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 28 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 29 | I 've even considered reporting it to the health people |
| 30 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |