Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm as many people here know and like them I have worked in a voluntary capacity and one way or another in this theatre for many years and we ca n't do without it we do n't want to see it close or any of those drastic things . |
| 2 | He had seen fear , and bravery , too , and savagery and oppression , homes burned down , wheels smashed off carts and farm implements so that the land could not be cultivated , crops ruined — he had seen it spread everywhere and he did n't want to see it any more . |
| 3 | No one ever got to see it complete , except me and Terry of course . ’ |
| 4 | I think a lot of people tend to find it hard to get by on a , a monthly pay packet as it is |
| 5 | ‘ We 've given a lot of blood , sweat and tears and I do n't just want to pass it all on for somebody else to inherit . |
| 6 | Parissien acknowledges another benefit : ‘ the bottom line , for those who want to see it that way , is that the course is also a guide to how to put money onto a house , rather than take it off . ’ |
| 7 | You want to see it safe in its new quarters . ’ |
| 8 | He could not wait to see it all back safely in England and to start on his next publication . |
| 9 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 10 | she has to taste it first |
| 11 | Women appear to find it difficult , at times , to control their moods and may be subject to emotional outbursts or lose their tempers more frequently . ’ |
| 12 | Benny 's head ached as she tried to work it all out . |
| 13 | Want to try it all together |
| 14 | I want to know it all . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to know it all . ’ |
| 16 | Erm you could just , you do n't need to write , it 's very nice writing you do n't need to write it all out now you could put spending and a colon right and then , or I would spend colon |
| 17 | I had not expected to find it necessary to leave the Cabinet . |
| 18 | She remembered , too , Canon Wheeler 's unexpected appearance at Ian 's attic office when he had perhaps expected to find it empty . |
| 19 | With 12 wins — nine inside the distance — in 13 fights , Wharton is on the right course and Carr can be expected to find it tougher this time . |
| 20 | As we pottered around I mused ; is it not weird that we island-bred British , only recently the greatest maritime nation in the world , have barely a handful of water-borne aircraft , and wherever these few appear certain English observers of this seriously endangered species can not wait to render it extinct by outlawing it — or at least putting every conceivable obstacle , actual or procedural , in its way ? |
| 21 | Seeman tried to render it useful by identifying five meanings for it : |
| 22 | But I want to hear it all . |
| 23 | Of course I want to hear it all . ’ |
| 24 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 25 | Oh he says I can get you one , I said I want to hear it first |
| 26 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 27 | The upper limit on the amount of data is set by the database that has to handle it all , rather than by the car code system . |
| 28 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 29 | For cabinet work , however , you will need to fit it first , and engrave it in situ . |
| 30 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |