Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Others may need to rely on it pending the grant of legal aid .
2 ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone .
3 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 .
4 You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen .
5 ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’
6 Accepting that you will need to provide either training or re-training for your existing staff means that you will remember to budget for it in the overall cost of the system .
7 If a collector had acquired the ancient cross , Wartski 's experts might have heard of it through the dealers ' grapevine .
8 Some of you might have heard about it in the press .
9 Imagine my excitement , therefore , when it seemed recently that I might have stumbled across it in the shape of the Tower House in Malmesbury , Wiltshire .
10 Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look .
11 Forgive the typed letter — bit impersonal , but I am trying to get to speedy grips with the little apple laptop powerbook 100 which I got when George was home — heaven alone knows how I would have done without it in the last few weeks .
12 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 .
13 Lee must have banged into it in the dark .
14 Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings .
15 ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned .
16 Fill in details about the present state of the room in the first column ; then what you would like or propose to do about it in the second , and finally , in the last column , what it 's going to cost you .
17 ‘ Could n't bear to part with it until the last minute . ’
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