Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
2 | Professionals involved with child protection define and explain it in different and sometimes conflicting ways , and adopt quite different stances about the way it should be undertaken ( Stainton Rogers and Stainton Rogers , 1989 ) . |
3 | He was not yet of an age where polite altruism is practised.among friends , a situation in which one denies oneself comfort and offers it to another . |
4 | And one , if you ever wanted to do a bit of homework , to actually really get into the mood for something like this , you want to take a , a single piece , a single little newsy thing , and just practise , try and write it for half a dozen different outlets . |
5 | When I very deliberately try and remember it like this I know I end up remembering it and describing it being like a bar scene in a musical , where everyone that the camera pans past is a very definite character , and they 're all so eager when the camera is on them , clapping and laughing and tapping their feet to the music so convincingly . |
6 | Again , we said this morning , try and keep it to one page . |
7 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
8 | Er I mean if I if I try and cover it with one of our professional salesmen , |
9 | Go and see it by all means , but do n't expect too much . |
10 | In 678 Ecgfrith , urged on by his second wife Iurminburg , expelled Wilfrid from his see and divided it in two , with a new bishop in Hexham as well as York . |
11 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |