Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
2 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
3 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
4 | The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside . |
5 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
6 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
7 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
8 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
9 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
10 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
11 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
12 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
13 | My contact with David had fired me with an interest in Peru again , a desire to engage with it beyond the level of annoyance . |
14 | Once a decision is made it must be communicated in writing to the claimant , who then has three months in which to appeal against it to the SSAT . |
15 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
16 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
17 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
18 | Now what I want you to do I want to just have a look at it now and I want you to play with it over the holiday on your own . |
19 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
20 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
21 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
22 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
23 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
24 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
25 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
26 | And he is not the man to go with it for the peace and the quiet bliss . ’ |
27 | If this is to be the structure , it is good to go with it from the outset : once groups are established and running , you may find it difficult for group members to ‘ own ’ such a threatening idea ! |
28 | Although Tory Euro-rebels support the Government in opposing the social chapter , they are prepared to vote for it in the hope of wrecking the whole treaty . |
29 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
30 | But the level of activity is not constant so either the permanent staff have to deal with it at the expense of other work , which leads to chaos ; or , temporaries have to be employed , which again leads to chaos . |