Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 2 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 3 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 4 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 5 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 6 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 7 | What you wan na do is leave it in the squash club , in the actual er court |
| 8 | We 're , we 're sort of just about , you know there 's the last minute things to put in , but , barring that , what we 've done is to put it in a lot of small bags rather than big cases |
| 9 | So you can do it every other day , or whenever , whatever your organisational is , but what I used to do is do it on a Friday . |
| 10 | So when the master comes back and says to then What have you done with your talents ? one the first servant shouts , Here , here are ten for your one , Here are five for your one , and he 's very cross with the third servant because he said , What 's the purpose of giving me giving you this money if all you 're going to do is hide it in the drawer ? |
| 11 | ‘ Martin and his team keep kicking the ball into the penalty area and all I have to do is nod it into the net , ’ the 31-year-old rider said . |
| 12 | All you have to do is introduce it into the plebs ’ soap . |
| 13 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 14 | Someone must have been reading it during an attack of constipation . |
| 15 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 16 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 17 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 18 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 19 | The alternator , which should have been recharging it during the flight , for some reason was n't . |
| 20 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 21 | The only satisfactory way to deal with a word which can not be found is to negotiate it with the user ; such a word can be ignored ( i.e. , removed from the search ) or replaced , or the search can be abandoned on the ground that the word is correct and essential to the success of the search . |
| 22 | The best thing to do when an old galvanised cistern has started to rust is to replace it with a modern plastic type . |
| 23 | I think we 're losing track of what this actually is Paul , there are , you 're trying to do two things at once what you 're trying to do , I think is use it as a learning process for children but this is an annual report for parents and I think that part of it a at least surely must be a report by the sa member of staff , by the department on how the child has done , by the member staff . |
| 24 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 25 | All you do is apply it to a cleansed bare face and give it a few hours to work . |
| 26 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 27 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 28 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 29 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 30 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |