Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd 've given it to you ; I was n't holding out . |
| 4 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 5 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 6 | cos I did n't fancy eating it like that and er she goes , I told her give us a piece of some of that wrapping you know |
| 7 | I hate to see it like that . ’ |
| 8 | I knew my wife did n't want to see it at all . |
| 9 | Local councillor Eddie McEvilly said : ‘ I do n't really want to talk about conditions on the operation , because I do n't want to see it at all . ’ |
| 10 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 11 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 12 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 13 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 14 | We tend to see it from perhaps sort of Heathrow that you want to go in , into London because that 's where , where the links are , by roads an and then the part of the link we 've got is at Piccadilly line . |
| 15 | Eyam is a small , intimate house , so do n't all rush to see it at once , for the guides can accommodate only limited numbers on their tours . |
| 16 | Freud ignored the more likely ‘ social ’ hypothesis for feminine dissatisfaction , preferring to ascribe it to a biologically based female nature . |
| 17 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 18 | Perhaps she had intended to restore it to working order but with increasing age had n't been able to summon the energy or enthusiasm to cope with the disturbance . |
| 19 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 20 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 21 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 22 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 23 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 24 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 25 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 26 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 27 | There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position . |
| 28 | Where there was a stout tower , they would prefer to pass it by and take what came easily ; and most of those Northumbrian herds and farmers would survive . |
| 29 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 30 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |