Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't describe it as an assault but it was certainly reckless and dangerous play . |
| 3 | Er what I actually mean is whenever you have an idiom , you can substitute in the position of a whole sentence or of a verb phrase , but you ca n't substitute it for a subject and a verb , leaving the object of the sentence intact . |
| 4 | Who did they rent it from a farmer or something ? |
| 5 | Wood lends a feeling of natural warmth to the conservatory , and you can choose it without a conscience if the timber used comes from managed forests . |
| 6 | And the second ad the third advocacy will be the supervised mitigation when you 'll do it with a tutor and then have separate individual feedback given to you . |
| 7 | I 'm not like some men who ca n't do it with a woman unless they feel emotionally involved with her . |
| 8 | Shall I do it with a toothbrush and a ? |
| 9 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 10 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 11 | If you give me leave , I will do it in a way that would not dishonour your forebears . ’ |
| 12 | Said John Thompson , IBM vice-president and Application Business Systems general manager , ‘ We will implement RISC [ on the AS/400 ] , but not until it catches up with the AS/400 architecture , which we think is more advanced … and until we can do it in a way that wo n't disrupt the customer 's applications . ’ |
| 13 | If machines could be taught to plan over a chessboard , maybe they could do it in a factory as well . |
| 14 | Commenting on the scope of a scheme that can give every farmer a stake in conservation , he said : ‘ If someone wants to make a 20 metre-wide headland , he can run it for a mile and still use up only eight acres of his set-aside land . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 16 | His grandfather created a fantasy.But he does n't see it as a folly as he grew up with it . |
| 17 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 18 | If we want to understand the functioning of a pay-roll system of a local authority we could see it as a system and the near environment will include the other departments of the local authority as well as the banks , building societies and other financial institutions . |
| 19 | But when an idea or the picture is false , we are more conscious of it as a separate thing , for we can clearly see it as a preconception or a prejudice . |
| 20 | Erm but er I can appreciate obviously for you , particularly final year students , to have s y'know a single text which not all of you are not that keen on , but er some of you do see it as an advantage as well . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's strange , and I just hope younger players do n't see it as an example that international football is something you retire from early . ’ |
| 22 | Those who have been before would n't touch it with a bargepole and those of more tender years are almost certain to have been warned off anyway . |
| 23 | From September 1974 the Diploma would become a BA with Honours , and students on existing courses or with a DipAD awarded between 1966 and 1974 could convert it to a BA if they wished . |
| 24 | you can use it for a saw or put a head |
| 25 | The College itself has warned the County Council that such a camp could undermine security because the I R A could use it as a cover while surveying the staff and premises . |
| 26 | is it , if you , if you 're using , if you 're gon na use it as a pub as well |
| 27 | She may also use it as a greeting when she has been away from the kittens for a while . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , why not leave the keys with us and then if you ca n't get away , you can perhaps come back here — or if everything goes OK we 'll use it as a playroom or something . ’ |
| 29 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 30 | Tell Kate not to give way to despondency , perhaps she should drop it for a while and come back to it fresh with new ideas and enthusiasm . |