Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 2 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 3 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 4 | ‘ And I want to use it in the plot for my new novel , ’ Melissa continued . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 6 | I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’ |
| 7 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 8 | I forgot to play it with the tune right though . |
| 9 | I manage to knock it on the floor , where the unwrapped chocs go on a neighbourhood tour . |
| 10 | I like to put it on the table and hear the comments afterwards , and I 'm pleased to bits if it 's been all right … |
| 11 | Do I have to do it to the end ? |
| 12 | Why do I have to do it in the middle ? |
| 13 | Or would I have to put it in the airing cupboard ? ’ |
| 14 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 15 | Do I try to see it from the laibon 's point of view ? |
| 16 | I 'd never driven a van in my life but I managed to drive it from the East End to the West End , which I found a feat , and then I finally drove it up to Cumberland in the snow which was even more of a feat . |
| 17 | During the meal a great spider crawled on to the table cloth and I went to kill it with the leg of chicken I was gnawing , but Benjamin stopped me . |
| 18 | I went to see it at the Barbican , it 's very good . |
| 19 | So I went to tax it with the fifty five quid as I thought ! |
| 20 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
| 21 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 22 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 23 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 24 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 25 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 26 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 27 | So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales . |
| 28 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 29 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 30 | The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth . |