Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb infin] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
| 2 | He undid the buttons of his shirt and shrugged it from his shoulders , letting it fall unheeded to the floor . |
| 3 | Few saw it like that at the time . |
| 4 | And I think if we could make it get one of the Uttlesford chaps to the same meeting |
| 5 | mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back . |
| 6 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 7 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 8 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 9 | Establish a movement — do it long enough for the audience to get hold of it . |
| 10 | For not only does it contain one of the largest conurbations outside London , but it also includes some thinly populated territory as well as smaller towns and rural districts . |
| 11 | What does it feel like for the select band of lay students ? , a mother and trained nurse who commutes daily from Stockton on Tees , says : ‘ Ushaw 's students have made us feel very welcome . |
| 12 | At least seventy five percent you can work out well what have we got we got an acid or a base or a carbonate or what , and does it fit any of the I mean there are n't many patterns , there 's metal acid , what does that give ? |
| 13 | Does it move freely or , when fully open , does it get stuck in the hook ? |
| 14 | Oop , what does it say that on the back for ? |
| 15 | Fluoride can be harmful ; the key question is , at what concentrations does it become toxic in the body ? |
| 16 | I staggered back , partly to make it look good on the off chance there was somebody watching and partly because letting go of the winch had put me off balance . |
| 17 | For as long as it seemed remotely relevant , the tactic never failed ; and it was easy enough to make it seem relevant in the atmosphere of international hostility of 1945 . |