Example sentences of "[verb] it [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manceville had designed it himself as a great Gothic palace and even incorporated the specially-built ruins of an abbey into one wing . |
| 2 | Although we might be prepared outside our normal scheme to fund the current year 's training for such people on the understanding that future funding will not be available , so in other words if somebody comes along to you and says , I 'd like to do an M B A , beginning this year , now normally we we would say , yes , we will contribute our half to that cost , er and that would then be a high priority on our budget to provide continued support for the rest of that M B A course , we 're now saying that that the answer is actually no , because we can not provide support next year , we do n't think , er but if you never the less want to go ahead this year and then fund it yourself from then on , then we we have actually got money available which we can use this year . |
| 3 | I gather that you built it yourself in one of your sheds and that it was there until Saturday afternoon , the day of the festival — is that right ? ’ |
| 4 | Do n't get me wrong , I 've done it myself in the past and seen just how far it got me . |
| 5 | I did n't mind , I 'd done it myself in the past and probably will again . |
| 6 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 7 | Headland has persuasively argued that , just as with the pygmies above , there was just not enough food for such groups in the forest itself ; in this case , the people seemed to have been trading wild meat for goods including carbohydrate and , indeed , may have grown it themselves in the past . |
| 8 | ‘ We never put a variety on the list until we have grown it ourselves for a year . ’ |
| 9 | The only grass that 's well cut is where people cut it themselves outside their own house but , in particular , erm , th I would like to see the supervision of the contract and that we do n't cough up the money unless the job 's done properly because I think we 're paying for a job that 's not being either done at all , or when it is being done it 's not being done well . |
| 10 | I thought they were in every pool like , you can m even do it yourself without thinking about it if you want some people |
| 11 | A lot of people say that cavers are mad , that they cause a lot of trouble getting themselves stuck , and that they would n't do it themselves for a gold onion . |
| 12 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't believe it myself at first , until I started to notice little changes in Dowd . ’ |
| 14 | He could only see it himself by standing with his back to one mirror and looking in another . |
| 15 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 16 | Understanding Data Communications shows you how to do it yourself in a way you can easily understand . |
| 17 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 18 | We 're talking just under two hundred in Denmark and just under three hundred in Norway it may be cost-effective for us to do it ourselves with initial distribution from Stansted and maybe a local person doing any new distributions but I think in all honesty it will be as cheap for us |
| 19 | Once the equipment works , the buyers can be encouraged to use it themselves under the salesperson 's supervision . |
| 20 | I would summarise it myself in terms of a market economy bounded by Christian principles of justice . |
| 21 | Now of that hundred and twenty five thousand revenue spending which would be coming out of County Council to match what is likely to happen in the five B programme , most of that , most of that is on economic development activities , now the kind of way we can find that money without going to the authorities and asking for growth funding , because this Committee has not asked for any and that is not common in all the committees in the Council , is actually by finding it out of things like our monies , and other projects , actually funding it yourself as a Committee , funding the ability to draw in European money into Shropshire . |
| 22 | ‘ Rather than have this turn into a trial of strength between the Government and some sections of the press about my future , I have decided to resolve it myself by resigning . |
| 23 | The reason , frequently given , and I shudder because I can remember advancing it myself on a history syllabus committee , is that since primary schooling is terminal for many children , they must cover the ground or remain forever ignorant . |
| 24 | She watched him get the pony ready , learning all the time so that she would be able to harness it herself in future when she wanted to drive out in Nahum 's absence . |
| 25 | This takes about six weeks — just as you 're about to hand in your notice , it suddenly clicks and they are doing it themselves without you having to say anything . |
| 26 | Gover took over from Strudwick in 1938 and has run it himself since 1954 . |
| 27 | Do you see ah , th the pe , the boys and girls or the , the young people that you 're working with erm , having the same veering towards the same kind of thing , I mean , do you see pressures on on girls , towards achieving that perfect body in the way that you felt it yourself at one time . |
| 28 | To cut down on expense he did not get the big factory spreaders but started to spread it himself with tractor and shovel . |
| 29 | You can fix it yourself with a wood repair system such as Ronseal 's or Cuprinol 's . |
| 30 | " He 'll tell it himself in a few minutes . |