Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to write it for live musicians of both sexes . |
| 2 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 3 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 4 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 5 | So you want to avoid it at all costs in release three of four . |
| 6 | For example , although they may initially over-extend a word like dog to a variety of different four-legged mammals , they cease to apply it to any part of the domain newly taken over with the acquisition of a new word . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 8 | ‘ They just want to do the job they are paid and trained to do and they want to do it in suitable clothing , ie in uniform . ’ |
| 9 | Erm I 've mentioned accessibility , I would raise that again , I 'm a non-driver erm it 's easy to hop in a car and get from here to Chelmsford , if you want to do it by public transport it is a nightmare erm the meeting here on , on Monday which was very poorly attended , and I understand that 's been the pattern right across the area , and I do n't think the health authority is that interested in finding out what people have thought to be honest ! |
| 10 | But we feel so ill at ease with silence that we want to fill it with endless clatter and talk about ourselves . |
| 11 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 12 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 13 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 14 | These three features also appear to distinguish it from classical criminology ( although I will reconsider the distinction later ) . |
| 15 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 16 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 17 | Historical knowledge is in the end indivisible , even if the multiplication of specialisms seem to subdivide it into separate spheres . |
| 18 | What happens if you issue one to , you manage to get it to this department today but ca n't get it to that department 'til tomorrow and . |
| 19 | Besides , some heads like to lord it over local parents — particularly over the pushy ones . |
| 20 | In my own department , I should say that , although some members still believe that literature is best studied in isolation , looking simply at ‘ the words on the page ’ , most of us now like to contextualise it in some way , often historically , and are inclined to ask students to read some texts which are not ‘ literature ’ in the conventional sense . |
| 21 | Ben Nevis really needs no introduction , and as most walkers intend to climb it at some point it 's worthy of inclusion . |
| 22 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 23 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 24 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 25 | Accordingly the lenders got their security , and leave to turn it into good cash if no other cash redeemed it in time . |
| 26 | ‘ Eubank has never fought anyone of stature so it 's a straight forward fight for me , thanks for the chance and I fully intend to take it with both hands , ’ he said boldly . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 28 | Garfinkel 's interest is not in whether they are right or wrong in perceiving it in this way , but rather in how they come to perceive it in this way , and what effect this perception has on their actions . |
| 29 | The glycosides are even retained as the caterpillar changes into a butterfly and help to protect it from predatory birds . |
| 30 | At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal . |