Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to try it straight to see how it looks and I 've heard there is a shampoo that temporarily smooths out the perm . |
| 2 | Is this a sign of a tradition-conscious reappraisal of iconology in the town where it began , or has it more to do with the current emphasis of your Department ? |
| 3 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 4 | We might need it yet to do another bit . |
| 5 | I mean Mao will have no merit in actually distorting it deliberately to try and motivate his leaders because |
| 6 | It was all so unreal , she felt she had to write it down to prove it was happening , to have it and hold it to her heart . |
| 7 | If you have one of these , send it back to get a BCCI card . |
| 8 | send it down to use yourself , but to be able to carry that through and to , to go on to , to be sincere , and I respect that it 's important to be sincere . |
| 9 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
| 10 | well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car |
| 11 | where they 're talking about spending money on a one of these old old cage drillers , tooling it up to drill cages at . |
| 12 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 13 | Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming . |
| 14 | I say it again to show there is no ill will — ‘ Doth a fountain send forth at the same place , Sweet water and bitter ? ’ ' |
| 15 | Although the recession was said to be the major cause , blame was also aimed at tycoon Gerald Ratner , whose father founded the firm and built it up to become Britain 's biggest jewellery chain . |
| 16 | ‘ Once our new developments come on stream , the group will experience strong cash flow , enabling it both to reduce borrowings and to resume dividend payments , ’ he promised . |
| 17 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 18 | Prepare the containers by filling loosely to the brim with peat compost , press it down gently with finger pressure around the rim of the tray to ensure there are no air pockets and roughly level it again , then press it down to make a firm , level surface about ½ in ( 12mm ) below the rim . |
| 19 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 20 | Pyne used it ruthlessly to pursue royalists , harass political opponents , and bully witnesses and minor officials . |
| 21 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 22 | Patois was a success for the group insofar as they used it succinctly to communicate rejection of authority . |
| 23 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 24 | She used it initially to fan her face with . |
| 25 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 26 | No , what I meant , is if saying that if I camped onto that number over there 3414 , and if that phone becomes free , this phone starts ringing and I might be doing something , so by the time I 've picked it up to make that connection , suppose 3414 is then making another outgoing call , do I have to camp on yet again to 3414 ? |
| 27 | I found it best to suspend the tube containing the eggs as soon as the embryo could be seen inside . |
| 28 | As it turned out , parents found it best to ask Olwyn which one of the four rewards on the menu she preferred on any successful night . |
| 29 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 30 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |