Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | outside people 's houses , and the amount of stuff in there , that just breaks my heart to see it all go into landfill . |
| 2 | The following Monday we met at Downing Street in an attempt to sort it all out . |
| 3 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 4 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 5 | But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough . |
| 6 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 7 | England then equalised with a controversial Webb penalty seven minutes before the break to leave it 3–3 at the interval . |
| 8 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 9 | Then give it another wash with moss killer to keep it clean . |
| 10 | The enclosure also houses a single 12″ speaker , plus the aforementioned footswitch , which neatly Velcros to the side to keep it safe and out of the way . |
| 11 | It is also usual practice to spray a bouquet with water from an atomiser to keep it fresh , but it should be avoided in this case as the water droplets can mark the flowers , as well as possibly make the bouquet damp when the time comes for you to press it . |
| 12 | The swelter in summer squeezed on the planes of his skull like a knight 's helmet overheating in the sun , before the Saracens taught the Christians to wear veils , and the winds of winter bit into his brows like braces screwed onto scaffolding to keep it rigid , and set pain skirling through his body . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's likely that its closure is a fait accompli but it would be imprudent not to try all avenues in a bid to keep it open . ’ |
| 14 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 15 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 16 | This sequence is probably going to be shot very early in the morning , and it will take great strength of mind to get it all together . |
| 17 | However , the future of its messy OSF/1-Ultrix-Open Desktop strategy is so unstable that even its own spokespeople were at a loss to explain it last week — ‘ it 's too early to say , ’ they conceded . |
| 18 | A VET clipped the wings of a valuable parrot to stop it escaping — but when the owner got it home it flew off and was never seen again . |
| 19 | The most celebrated attempt to explain it all by numbers was the so-called Phillips curve [ 1958 ] . |
| 20 | Whereas I hardly ever break a string ; I mean , you do n't have to hit your guitar with a hammer to make it sound loud . ’ |
| 21 | This involved changes in the refuelling system ; it was a bid to make it easier to obtain weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 22 | ‘ We knew Wednesday had problems at the back when long balls were played at them , so it came as no surprise when we scored on the break to make it 1–1 . ’ |
| 23 | For your first flight , choose a day with some wind to make it easier to keep the wings level and to keep the glider straight . |
| 24 | Birkdale does n't need a lot of wind to make it tough like some links courses . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll finish his bed and get him to lie on his side to make it easy for thee . |
| 26 | The house needs remedial action to make it safe , but who has to bear the cost of this work ? |
| 27 | A glance through any of the larger component catalogues will show that the number of different components currently in use is so large that even if you could afford to buy one or two of everything , you would need a warehouse to store it all . |
| 28 | Then Thomson bought The Times late in 1966 and poured resources into it in an attempt to make it profitable . |
| 29 | His first Prayer Book was influenced by Luther ; his second more by Zwingli , in an attempt to make it acceptable to the Continental churches and enable a Reformed General Council to bring the whole of Christendom into a new and scriptural unity . |
| 30 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |