Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 2 | okay , do n't take too much , and that is to first make a literal translation and then , to try and put it into idiomatic English . |
| 3 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 4 | If you need parent support in the bad times then you need to encourage and reward it in those times when everything is going well . |
| 5 | From then on , she just buys what she wants and charges it to one or other of the parents ’ accounts . |
| 6 | Whether for chamfering , grooving , templating or using it for intricate decorative work , this machine will help you do it cleanly and quickly . |
| 7 | Cadfael stooped and took it in both hands , and lifted it , and it parted from its setting without trailing a blade of grass or a torn edge of moss . |
| 8 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 9 | His mother told him she made things to sell and left it at that . |
| 10 | Then , when we are ready , we can reconstitute and display it as new information which human beings can once again understand . |
| 11 | What is at issue is whether improved resource levels should be used to make special schools internally more satisfactory , doing what they have historically done but doing it in some sense more efficiently , or whether those resources are used in an attempt to improve the general education service in ways which might reduce its need for transferring pupils to special schools . |
| 12 | The fluidity of much of the resulting ‘ data ’ is a real problem for archivists , as is the challenge of finding more powerful ways of categorising , labelling and storing it in structured ways . |
| 13 | He goes and breaks it in half when his lost . |
| 14 | Erm if you 're going to use =thing something like that in the exam I mean there 's no reason why you should n't use that multiplying it by one point whatever the percentage is . |
| 15 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 16 | The ability to store more food than we could eat at once also meant being able to buy and sell it in real quantity and the merchant cities arose . |
| 17 | ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’ |
| 18 | Accepting her decision without question , Michele nodded and left it at that , then , taking her elbow , he began to lead her back the way they 'd come . |
| 19 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 20 | Ford is testing a sophisticated electronic security system on cars used by its own executives before deciding whether to standardise it on all high performance models . |
| 21 | In an age when insurance against all forms of liability is commonplace , it is surely not surprising or unjust if law makes persons who carry on some kinds of hazardous undertakings liable for the harm they do , unless they can excuse or justify it on some recognisable ground . ’ |
| 22 | Neither lexicographers nor political theorists can or should hope to halt this process of constant revision , although they may legitimately aspire to guide or nudge it in one direction rather than another . |
| 23 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 24 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |
| 25 | Admirable as such schemes seemed from St Petersburg , they looked very different on the ground : it was reported from one ‘ city ’ designated an administrative hub that no one had entered or left it for three months . |
| 26 | Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | We 'll try and get it with this . |
| 28 | But erm , you know the English , the major author 's list can you try and find it after this . |
| 29 | He was not yet of an age where polite altruism is practised.among friends , a situation in which one denies oneself comfort and offers it to another . |
| 30 | Their time is constantly spent in tilling the soil , manuring it with ashes , raking and hoeing it with wooden hoes . |