Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it . |
| 3 | They did n't drive around in their fathers ' cast-off Rollers ; they pooled their resources , picked up a MkII escort for a hundred notes at an auction and took it in turns to drive it round a disused airfield practising handbrake turns until the car cried enough . |
| 4 | I mean , they could 've filled it in . |
| 5 | Failing a test was defined as being seen or heard to carry it out incorrectly ( eg to say the time was twenty past nine when the watch indicated a quarter to four ) , or being unable to attempt it ( eg being unable to answer when asked to identify a particular coin ) . |
| 6 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 7 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 8 | Your Mum 's got a kick-start on your Dad 's cock so he goes rub it up babe ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! aargh ! |
| 9 | When had her name up for detention she goes rub it off ! |
| 10 | She goes rub it off . |
| 11 | The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum . |
| 12 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
| 13 | So do you want to write it down ? |
| 14 | Or more generally , why should we want to find it out , whether by being told it or otherwise ? |
| 15 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 16 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 17 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 18 | We chanced to find it out . ’ |
| 19 | They did n't want to spell it out too much for Eve , but it was a big event , the child they had brought up being invited out to a party . |
| 20 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've bought it , ’ said Amanda , ‘ and I want to see it up . ’ |
| 22 | I 've signed a three-year contract with Birmingham and want to see it through . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I would only consider using it in very particular circumstances , and for obvious reasons , I would not predict what those circumstances might be . ’ |
| 24 | The hardened jumper-fiddler can do it the hard way , of course , but the software approach is by far the easiest — so you can plug it in and forget it , you wo n't need to whip it out and fiddle with it . |
| 25 | There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home . |
| 26 | If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved . |
| 27 | One can imagine a Soviet general fuming to see it around her neck . |
| 28 | Four times people at higher levels tried to kill it off , and four times the people working on it came back and fought for it , argued for it , provided justification and evidence for why it should continue : ‘ Just give us a little more time ; we know we can make it work . ’ |
| 29 | In particular we shall discuss the nature of the evaluative activity being required , the type of analysis expected , the value issues involved in a review , the process of review suggested , and who is expected to carry it out . |
| 30 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |