Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill . |
| 2 | He pressured Max Radl at Abwehr headquarters to plan it all behind the Admiral 's back . |
| 3 | The following Monday we met at Downing Street in an attempt to sort it all out . |
| 4 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 5 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 6 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 7 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 8 | England then equalised with a controversial Webb penalty seven minutes before the break to leave it 3–3 at the interval . |
| 9 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 10 | Then give it another wash with moss killer to keep it clean . |
| 11 | The enclosure also houses a single 12″ speaker , plus the aforementioned footswitch , which neatly Velcros to the side to keep it safe and out of the way . |
| 12 | It is also usual practice to spray a bouquet with water from an atomiser to keep it fresh , but it should be avoided in this case as the water droplets can mark the flowers , as well as possibly make the bouquet damp when the time comes for you to press it . |
| 13 | The swelter in summer squeezed on the planes of his skull like a knight 's helmet overheating in the sun , before the Saracens taught the Christians to wear veils , and the winds of winter bit into his brows like braces screwed onto scaffolding to keep it rigid , and set pain skirling through his body . |
| 14 | I have it cut every three months to keep it healthy . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's likely that its closure is a fait accompli but it would be imprudent not to try all avenues in a bid to keep it open . ’ |
| 16 | Many times after cooking and cleaning there , she would have to bring suitcases of washing back to our house in Taibach to get it ready for the next visit . |
| 17 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 18 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 19 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 20 | This sequence is probably going to be shot very early in the morning , and it will take great strength of mind to get it all together . |
| 21 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 22 | Just when it looked as if they were starting to put something together ( they had not lost a goal in their previous four matches ) , along came Dundee to ruin it all . |
| 23 | A VET clipped the wings of a valuable parrot to stop it escaping — but when the owner got it home it flew off and was never seen again . |
| 24 | The most celebrated attempt to explain it all by numbers was the so-called Phillips curve [ 1958 ] . |
| 25 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 26 | Marwood , the League 's leading scorer with 224 points , added both goals to make it 18-12 . |
| 27 | Whereas I hardly ever break a string ; I mean , you do n't have to hit your guitar with a hammer to make it sound loud . ’ |
| 28 | This involved changes in the refuelling system ; it was a bid to make it easier to obtain weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 29 | ‘ We knew Wednesday had problems at the back when long balls were played at them , so it came as no surprise when we scored on the break to make it 1–1 . ’ |
| 30 | For your first flight , choose a day with some wind to make it easier to keep the wings level and to keep the glider straight . |