Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do people think that inserting a candle into something they have no further use for renders it an indispensable household utensil instead of litter they should be taking home in their rucksacks ? |
| 2 | Won t you forgive me for keeping it a secret ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean flipping talk about keeping it a secret ! |
| 4 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 5 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 6 | In spring mulch the soil around it well after giving it a good soaking , this will encourage the soil to stay moist . |
| 7 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 8 | And he 's got ta do it a few times , so then the cost becomes and , and you like let's be fair , we 've had summers where it 's the weeds er the weeds have n't grown , but you get a wet summer and the weather warms and the wet and the weeds go peooow up like that . |
| 9 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 10 | Wonderful song still goes down as good as ever and I have to say we still get the same buzz out of singing it every night . |
| 11 | One caller accused him of labelling it a hell-hole . |
| 12 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
| 13 | Can you sort of give it a sweep ? |
| 14 | erm you might as well do a bit of a erm you know kind of give it a go and see what happens |
| 15 | You know , sort of give it a good chance . |
| 16 | You 're sort of getting it a bit more |
| 17 | No , I 'd have to sort of wash it a little bit so I |
| 18 | What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually |
| 19 | Just now , however , the land was dry , the pool a perfect mirror , moss on the statuary below giving it a rich green colour , like a tarnished bronze . |
| 20 | Instead of doing it a bit at a time , we can just multiply it . |
| 21 | Erm , yes I think , I think , you know , immediately you 're thinking of doing it the branches and obviously you 're running po , pretty big in |
| 22 | I 'm sure that e e if there is an easy way of doing it the Conservatives would have found out and done it . |
| 23 | Touring the fort , commanded by Sir Eyre Coote of the 37th Regiment , an unexpected knowledge surfaced : ‘ Dr Johnson talked of the proportions of charcoal and salt-petre in making gunpowder , of granulating it and of giving it a gloss ’ — although he admitted to Boswell afterwards that he had ‘ talked ostentatiously ’ . |
| 24 | Instead of giving it a grant , they paid back their money . |
| 25 | THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch . |
| 26 | if the Yanks of left it a bit later they 'd of missed all the action |
| 27 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 28 | British Coal had decided to sell the house for conversion into a hotel to Roo Management , a company run by an Australian businessman who had also bought Holme Lacey in Herefordshire with the intention of making it a hotel . |
| 29 | It 's sh shall we make shall we I 'm just trying to think of making it a no I wo n't make it any more awkward . |
| 30 | About the party — I 'd thought of making it a triple celebration : my engagement to Heather , Ma 's homecoming , and a kind of — gesture of thanks to Luke . ’ |