Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cuba 's proximity to the United States has given it great value for Soviet intelligence , surveillance and communications operations . |
| 2 | A distinctive prominence was given to mathematics — not least because its value in astronomy , navigation , architecture , and surveying gave it particular relevance to those training for missionary work overseas , or to those preparing for high military or government service . |
| 3 | Happily there was no quick cash-in when ROY ORBISON died just before Christmas 1988 , and his widow Barbara has left it four years before releasing his posthumous album KING OF HEARTS ( Virgin ) . |
| 4 | Liverpool St Helens , relegated from Division One last year , look destined to make it two drops in two years , as do Third Division Headingley who , racked by internal politics , are contemplating a new life in Division Four North . |
| 5 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 6 | Others have had to do it other people in other countries . |
| 7 | ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’ |
| 8 | Halstead will look to make it four wins in four games . |
| 9 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 10 | The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance . |
| 11 | On behalf of his wife , Sergeant Troy decided to have it one evening at the end of August , in the great barn . |
| 12 | If the Operator terminal is in use , the Offline System will try to access it several times in quick succession ; if it remains unavailable the Offline run will not take place and a message reporting the situation will be sent via the mail system to the Offline Manager . |
| 13 | On June 18 , the Supreme Soviet finally adopted the state budget for 1992 , which had been prepared with IMF and World Bank advice , having returned it four times to the budgetary commission for redrafting . |
| 14 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
| 15 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 16 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
| 17 | Okay try try it this way with the man hours anyway . |
| 18 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 19 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |
| 20 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 21 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 22 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 23 | I 've had it thirty years in my garden . |
| 24 | A small ensemble of four viole da braccio plus continuo suggests the trot , canter , and gallop of Tancred 's horse , the fall of night , the clash of swords , the fury of the combatants ( by rapidly repeated chords , an instrumental effect which disconcerted the players although Biagio Marini had employed it seven years before ) , 2l and their infighting with sword-pommels , helmets , and shields ( by another novel effect : pizzicato chords ) . |
| 25 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 26 | On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row . |
| 27 | In Division Three Hereford United will be hoping to make it two wins in two … they 've a new star rising in the west Chris Pike 's his name … three goals in two games |
| 28 | Matilda had read it many times with fascination . |
| 29 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 30 | It swells and shrinks , changing its output as it does so ; the official magnitude range is from 0.4 to 0.9 , but over the past decades I have seen it matching Rigel on rare occasions , while it is not often as faint as Aldebaran . |