Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 2 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 3 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 4 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 5 | In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks . |
| 6 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 7 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 8 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 9 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 10 | Its elasticity would have made it the ideal candidate for a trampoline-cover . |
| 11 | We , for our part , would have put it the other way , by expressing appreciation to the people from other churches both for their ready and effective response to our request for help and for the way they enlivened our company . |
| 12 | The company has moved fully into coachbuilding ; turned itself into a PLC and , late last year , opened a £500,000 repair facility in the capital city , having acquired it the previous year . |
| 13 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
| 14 | Chairman , if , if I may and it is just basically to look at the recommendation and wonder you know perhaps if we 've got it the right way round er that 's all , where we 're saying er there are certain things still outstanding wh which we would need to re-relate before er issuing er general conformity notices I understand b but we 're almost taking that they 're going to do that without any doubt , now I do n't know maybe there are things not said in this report which are well understood , but and members of are quite happy to accept erm er s some more more changes to , to the local plan so that it does conform with with the structure plan , but I just wondered whether round the wrong way . |
| 15 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 16 | erm Now , what you 've got there is a slightly later map of 1675 , which is exactly the same , the north is at the bottom , I 'm afraid the top is not very obvious , if I could just hold it up , you 've got the castle there , and you 've got it the right way up , and actually there 's some writing as well . |
| 17 | do n't forget to use the outside scale , and the other thing is , make sure you 've got it the right height , it 's not a precise |
| 18 | I 've got it the other way round look . |
| 19 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
| 20 | ‘ No , Ace , you 've got it the wrong way round . |
| 21 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 22 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 23 | The French press noted that the Mauritanian government 's pro-Iraqi alignment during the Gulf war had lost it the financial support of certain Gulf states , leaving it more dependent on French aid . |
| 24 | The reason I have given it the temporary title referred to above is because I have witnessed at least two name exchanges at the station in recent months . |
| 25 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 26 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 27 | Now she 's got it the other way about |
| 28 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
| 29 | He 's learnt it the hard way now and he 's . |