Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 've not done this before and I wanted to try it out with a small group like yourselves to see how we go on with it . |
| 2 | The district council then had to spend almost £250,000 to bail it out of a financial crisis . |
| 3 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |
| 4 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 5 | If you try that with erm a piece of wood , you try to pull it out into a long thin wire it would just break . |
| 6 | Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard . |
| 7 | I have a 30 gallon corner tank , and would like to set it up for a Black Peacock , Pterois volitans . |
| 8 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 9 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 10 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 'll think I 'll just need to talk it over with a few people before we run it though . ’ |
| 12 | set to shoot it out for a good cause |
| 13 | He took one hand off the controls to sweep it out in a large gesture that took in the whole of the City of London . |
| 14 | If you know you can not deal with an upsetting confrontation , try to put it off for a short while until you feel calmer . |
| 15 | He intended to mark it up for a hundred . |
| 16 | It was in the Fifties , however , that Gerard P. Kuiper said turbulence in various parts of the cloud was likely to make the cloud sufficiently dense to flatten it out into a disc-shaped mass , with a large mass at the centre orbited by smaller ones . |
| 17 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago , when the firm was of negligible size , Mr Fikret Abdić became its director and proceeded to build it up into a giant enterprise . |
| 19 | Now that 's different you 'll not get em to cancel it but to get them to spin it out over a longer period is a possibility and that 's what we 're gon na be working towards . |
| 20 | It did n't operate from the bank , and it 's the intention of the council to turn it back into a water-based boat hiring business so there will be nothing along the bank at all . |
| 21 | Indeed , the proposed development has been thrown into doubt with the Secretary of State 's decision to call it in for a public inquiry following representations from environmental pressure groups objecting to the scheme 's architectural quality . |
| 22 | Alan Farmer suggested that with a vivid feature film , children should be allowed to watch it through without a single interruption . |
| 23 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 24 | Although elite theorists have agreed upon the importance of empirically tested research , and their ability to carry it out in a value-free way , in fact this stream of analysis has always been associated with authors who take strong value positions . |
| 25 | Anyway , he left what should have been my share to Matthew on condition that I was able to lease it back at a nominal rental . |
| 26 | There seems to be some poetry rattling about in there , rather as air rattles about in the bowels , but to get it out with a proper report — that 's the trick ! |
| 27 | Parent 's of pupils at a top Gloucestershire school are being asked to bale it out of a 160,000 pound crisis . |
| 28 | She had plenty of time to think it over during a sleepless night , and on the train in the morning . |
| 29 | Scotsmen , Englishmen , and Welshmen joined with local fighters like Spider Kelly , Jackie Quinn , and Rinty Monaghan to slug it out for a few pounds . |
| 30 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |