Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants to see it a family home once again . ’ |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place . |
| 3 | Because he 's got this new system , he wants to use it a bit . |
| 4 | The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture . |
| 5 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 6 | Er , and the work just gets done , you do n't need to do it every day . |
| 7 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 8 | I 'm doing it tomorrow cos I want to leave it a little bit |
| 9 | But I do n't really want to compete in that world ; I want to do it a bit differently , something a bit more personal . |
| 10 | Or maybe maybe that is n't the first thing you want to do , if you want to do it a different way , do it whichever makes more sense to you . |
| 11 | ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting . |
| 12 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 13 | ‘ When talent comes through you want to give it a chance , ’ said Gooch . |
| 14 | ‘ Want to give it a parking ticket ? ’ said Jimmy from his chair . |
| 15 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 16 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 17 | We ca n't let you know yet where exactly you will have your wonderful week , because we want to keep it a surprise . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never understood why you want to keep it a secret — I wish I did , ’ Miranda said , returning to their perennial source of disagreement . |
| 19 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 20 | The chairman , Martin Jay , told me they were always looking for new ideas to raise money but they want to keep it an event for the family , a rural event based on the race . |
| 21 | You want to warm it a bit , though . ’ |
| 22 | The pattern design is shown here and you will need to repeat it a number of times widthways to fit your pattern format . |
| 23 | I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause . |
| 24 | What happens if he says well I want to alter it a little bit ? |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon . |
| 26 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 27 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 28 | I want to take it a step further and say , do n't behave like that , you idiots — it 's destroying people 's lives . ’ |
| 29 | The National Association of the Self-employed and Small Businesses wants to make it a criminal offence to issue cheques that are returned unpaid because no funds are available in the drawer 's account . |
| 30 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |