Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 2 | City analysts expect it to pass its final dividend , or make only a token pay-out . |
| 3 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 4 | but with her being ill it , she says it gave him another sense of duty that |
| 5 | ADDS says it designed its xEasy software for ease of use . |
| 6 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 7 | The problem appeared because Brutus tells Cassius of Portia 's death ( and uses it to explain his bad temper towards Cassius ) . |
| 8 | Elastic materials convert mechanical work into potential energy which is recoverable ; for example an ideal spring , if deformed by a stress , stores the energy and uses it to recover its original shape after removal of the stress . |
| 9 | Once you 've read all about the scheme , we 're confident you 'll feel it merits your careful consideration . |
| 10 | I hope it gives you some idea of what happened . |
| 11 | Let it have your sole attention when I am abroad , but when I am at home , so jealous am I of your affections , I shall permit no rival in them even a son and heir . |
| 12 | The choice of prose can accompany a deliberate disguise , as with Julia in Two Gentlemen , who adopts it to support her new role as a boy in her search for Proteus ( 1V.ii.26ff . ) . |
| 13 | If you accept metaphysics — whether very tentatively , or from a deep sense of inner knowing — how can you use it to transform your everyday life ? |
| 14 | Luton will use it strengthen their central defence . |
| 15 | Part of our country is in a neo-colonial situation — you know it has its own government , but the government does n't have economic control and the northern part of our country is under direct rule from Britain , under direct colonial rule . |
| 16 | NOT every train station can boast it has its own ghost . |
| 17 | The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 . |
| 18 | But no compulsion can secure that it will proceed along those lines … it can only be supplied with the knowledge and training which may guide it to seek its own solution in the better state with higher ideals . |
| 19 | is running it has its own setup menu |
| 20 | He gets a lot of comfort from the breastfeed , and as he has never had a bottle , and does n't drink milk from a cup , I feel it gives him some nourishment , too . |
| 21 | If you look upon Art as a frill , it is pretty certain you are not letting it play its proper part in the school . |
| 22 | ROGER Rance , owner of a turf supplier in Hemel Hempstead , has resorted to shock tactics to drum up business with the slogan Sod It heading his local newspaper advertisements . |
| 23 | They watched it chew its faultless way through several plates . |
| 24 | This is done by , when he thinks , ‘ … heard the same complaint and sat there powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 25 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 26 | CUCGA intends within five years to have ( i ) established relations with the media , Government Departments , Members of both Houses of Parliament and other bodies with an interest in higher education ; ( ii ) established itself as a campaigning body on behalf of graduate organisations ; ( iii ) opened its membership to encompass all university convocations and analogous bodies in the UK ; ( iv ) established methods of funding to allow it to support its expanded role ; ( v ) developed a comprehensive portfolio of policy issues upon which it can actively and publicly campaign at appropriate times . |
| 27 | The wife said in evidence that she knew the charge was a security but did not realise it affected her own share in the house . |
| 28 | He intended to take Papa 's money and use it to keep his long-term mistress and their children ; he laughed at me behind my back … while he pretended to my face that he admired and loved me dearly . |
| 29 | Each month , How To Get That Look brings you ideas and information on a particular room or furnishing style with hints on how you can adapt it to suit your own home . |
| 30 | Each month , How To Get That Look brings you ideas and information on one particular room or furnishing style , with hints on how you can adapt it to suit your own home . |