Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
2 | Thus , speakers who have productive control of Dyirbal morphology tend not to use it in peer-group situations . |
3 | You know the kind of thing I mean : the chickens dart into the mêlée , pick up a morsel of food , and then charge off to eat it in comparative quiet . |
4 | Imagine still doing it at forty ! ’ |
5 | Watch out leave it at that please mum I wan na watch Oh go on ! |
6 | We will extend compulsory competitive tendering to local authority housing management , and examine how to apply it to white-collar services . |
7 | Experience was all , and I set out to grab it with both hands , drifting from country to country , from one relationship to another , a heedless , hedonistic round with never a thought for tomorrow . |
8 | It is what children do quite naturally and in many under-developed countries people carry on doing it into old age . |
9 | Mention the most important points about the questionnaire you would use , but do not show it in full . |
10 | We do not do it for any other aspect of our social existence . |
11 | My response to these people is , if you can , t do the thing properly , then , please , do not do it at all . |
12 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
13 | I do not see it like that , and I am sure that the nation as a whole would not either . |
14 | Lots of young couples do not use contraception on their first time , and many do not use it at all . |
15 | ‘ Either you support the programme or you amend it , which means you do not support it at all , ’ he said . |
16 | It 's easy to obtain organic tomato seed of excellent quality by growing your own and ensuring you do not take it from diseased plants . |
17 | It is a peaceful fish which likes a quiet life , so do not house it with lively fish . |
18 | Do n't give it to any other person . |
19 | Well I think even if you do n't do it as one christian or as one human being to another , even if you do it in the view of a general who sleeps with the enemy general 's picture over his bed and you 've got ta try and think into this man 's mind , remember he 's from West Belfast , he 's from the area that this man was killed in . |
20 | I do n't do it on that , I do it on a big blackboard |
21 | ‘ I do n't do it for any reason of self . ’ |
22 | We do n't do it for any other section of society , and these people are not poor . |
23 | , well the job 's worth more than ninety quid , I said , I do n't do it for ninety quid ! |
24 | Please continue a positive attitude to gay issues , or do n't do it at all . |
25 | As Sam Snort always says , those that talk about it most , do it least , and those who talk about it least do n't do it at all . |
26 | ‘ AS SAM SNORT ALWAYS SAYS , THOSE THAT TALK ABOUT IT MOST , DO IT LEAST , AND THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT IT LEAST DO N'T DO IT AT ALL . ’ |
27 | That 's up to yourself , I personally do n't do it at all |
28 | So long as they do n't do it at those two times a day . |
29 | , but if I do n't do it at half term it would be left to the end . |
30 | Do n't do it like that , he said , do it like this . |