Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it . |
2 | NEXT time Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform Messiaen 's Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum they should do it in a great cathedral . |
3 | ‘ People can either do the walk in one spell or a bit every weekend , though they should complete it in a 12-month period ’ said Bill . |
4 | Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it . |
5 | As well as selecting the relevant information you must arrange it in a logical way . |
6 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
7 | You must hit it on a regular basis ! |
8 | ‘ Paulo 's suggested we should turn it into a small club for residents , and , from what I 've seen , it seems like a good idea . ’ |
9 | If they do n't hear anything else then they 'll regard it as a false alarm . |
10 | ‘ We 'll treat it as a scaphoid fracture . |
11 | Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course . |
12 | a green one or something , but I 'll do it as a red one |
13 | They 'll remember it as a tremendous part of their lives . |
14 | I might stick it on a flying lead and wander around with it for a bit and see where it 's best . |
15 | ‘ There 's a danger they 'll develop it in a piecemeal fashion . |
16 | Later when you are satisfied , you might read it to a limited number of people — just one or two . |
17 | For a meal , and like , we were really keen to try this and everything , and we , we did n't , we sort of kept saying , oh shall we open this bottle tonight , and they said no , we 'll save it for a special occasion . |
18 | No you can not , you 'll write it like a normal , a formal letter , like you would write to Melanie |
19 | And he 'll put it into a nice neat accountancy type form . |
20 | He goes look , I 'll write it down on an envelope , I 'll put it in a little envelope and you look at it before you die , but promise me you wo n't look at it before you die cos if you look at it before you die , it 'll happen to you . |
21 | If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room . |
22 | So please , ladies and gentlemen , when you speak to the supporters , as I know you always do , let's keep it on a friendly basis . |
23 | It would only take a couple of houses to be knocked down and they could make it into a dual carriage way . |
24 | Depopulation from plague was a very real factor in the long term , and while it might not destroy a village immediately , it could weaken it as a social and economic unit . |
25 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
26 | There seems to be some sort of implicit acknowledgement in there or even explicit acknowledgement that if we were able to justify the approach we could pursue it within a local plan and that does n't really square with what Mr Williamson has just said . |
27 | I mean I wo n't go into detail , but I mean she could do endowment , she could do it on a maximum investment plan basis , to back up her P E P , erm and save regularly through different funds . |
28 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
29 | With eyes half closed he could see it as a miniature cannon . |
30 | Well we could have it in a ordinary account it 's sa , still sort of er . |