Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end there was a tremendous battle because , although Mrs Christie expressed a wish in her will for the island to become a nature reserve , she left no money to carry it out . |
| 2 | I 'm not against the principle as I said when I came , when I was on the Council previously , when this was first hanging about , that there 's little doubt about it as , it 's a good policy , but will we get the money to carry it out . |
| 3 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 4 | In fact , pursuant to r 6.80 , no resolutions can be taken at the meeting of creditors other than : ( i ) a resolution to appoint a named insolvency practitioner to be trustee or two or more insolvency practitioners as joint trustees ; ( ii ) a resolution to establish a creditors ' committee ; ( iii ) ( unless a creditors ' committee has been established ) a resolution specifying the terms of the trustee 's remuneration or to defer consideration of that matter ; ( iv ) if two or more trustees are appointed , a resolution specifying whether acts are to be done by both or all of them , or by only one ; ( v ) a resolution adjourning the meeting for not more than three weeks ; and ( vi ) any other resolutions which the chairman thinks it right to allow for special reasons . |
| 5 | Being anxious is normal , the next stage though is to admit the anxiety and to ask for the faith to see it through . |
| 6 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
| 7 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 8 | And all the rime you knew that you would never take the risk of getting shot which this involved or have the necessary patience to carry it out . |
| 9 | The insistent demands of the computer make it hard for attention to wander , and unlike a human opponent , it can not be sidetracked , or exhausted . |
| 10 | But I intend to drive the strategy that is already in place and leave my successor to drive it even further . ’ |
| 11 | Why the decision to go it alone ? |
| 12 | If anything , the deepening and lengthening recession made it more rather than less unlikely that the electorate would turn to Mr Kinnock as an economic messiah . |
| 13 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 14 | You need panache to carry it off , with carefully selected ornaments and crockery from the period fortunately , there 's still quite a lot of it around ; geometric patterned wallpaper or plain walls with a border pattern in peaches and rusts . |
| 15 | Poland , for instance , unlike Russia , was a participant in and indeed an important contributor to the great movements in early modern European history , such as the Renaissance and the scientific revolution , and the country 's legal system , literary forms and religious faith aligned it firmly with the liberal West rather than the more authoritarian East . |
| 16 | Webb trying to release Collimore now , Whitlow who er has had a wonderful game for by money wins it back . |
| 17 | Sir , So , the swords are drawn with the Government at long last , now that you have a UK Chairman whose speech at this inauguration laid it firmly on the line , that what this country needs is a transport policy to serve commerce and social preference . |
| 18 | The hosepipe ban made it hard for Pa to water during the hours of daylight . |
| 19 | Their presence made it hard for the women to rescue the corpses of the drowned , and many bodies had to be abandoned to them . |
| 20 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 21 | The decision to kill it off comes four months after BBC 1 controller Jonathan Powell admitted it was a ‘ pale version of its old self ’ . |
| 22 | But dear Caroline 's got an almighty hangover , sick as a dog , so I brought him over on the back of the bike to see it again . |
| 23 | Cos my Mum made it so |
| 24 | Wilcox , always one to strike while the iron was hot , signed a deal of his own with United Artists , then remade his silent film , Nell Gwynn , presumably thinking its mix of history and sexiness made it sufficiently like Korda 's hit to clean up . |
| 25 | The terms of this description make it absolutely clear that Polygnotos did not adhere to the single ground-line but placed his figures up and down the field with some rudimentary indication of setting ; and a few Athenian vases which must have been painted around the sixties show the same thing . |
| 26 | Friend the Member for Aberdeen , North said that when an attempt was made in Committee to create a consumer body with a wider remit , the Chairman ruled it out of order on the ground that it went beyond the scope of the Bill . |
| 27 | After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile : |
| 28 | When he entered the party in 1927 , his radical , iconoclastic temperament made it relatively easy for him to align his own cultural views with those of a sectarian political group . |
| 29 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |
| 30 | The difficulties of the student in arranging pupillage make it rather theoretical to give advice on the assumption that he can pick and choose . |