Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the machinery is in working order and I was so fascinated to see it actually in operation that I was late getting back to the bus ; driver sitting with engine running , and the eyes of every accusing fellow passenger upon me . |
| 2 | While the Anglo-American partnership was vital but unequal in maintaining the First and Second Pillars of grand strategy , Britain was expected to go it alone in supporting the Third Pillar , which was an essentially British requirement that had little to do with the Americans or the North Atlantic Alliance . |
| 3 | The argument that those who teach — and one would add those who manage teaching — can not be expected to go it alone was pursued by Clive Beck ( 1990 ) . |
| 4 | Nearly all the undesirable changes that go on in food after it is harvested make it less pleasant , or decidedly horrible , to eat . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Rain , who had come to know it well . |
| 6 | It was a world he had relinquished with small regret and he had not expected to find it again on Larksoken headland . |
| 7 | In other words the employer 's conduct is so bad that a reasonable employee can not be expected to endure it any longer . |
| 8 | And the consumer can not be expected to do it all on his own . |
| 9 | Having established that his ears are , indeed , in working order , he 'll kick in with the kind of first-rate , imaginative and , in a very real sense , creative idea for which accountants are renowned , such as : ‘ Have you considered running it over four pages ? |
| 10 | I am even more amazed that , having hated it , people have now come to love it quite so much . |
| 11 | He wanted to settle , once and for all , the question of whether Riddle had made his last journey inside the Wheel and for that reason he was resolved to have it closely examined by an expert . |
| 12 | She has clear /l/ twice — a Jamaican would be expected to have it everywhere — yet twice she has vocalisation of /l/ as in LE . |
| 13 | Of the 1,000 subscribers , around 60% were customers of the original Cognito service , but the company says that the 40% of new business it has attracted puts it ahead of its business plan schedule . |
| 14 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 15 | The following conferences did place racism on the agenda , and all white participants were expected to take it seriously . |
| 16 | Mr Sloan took the Social Work Department 's line , and the Panel were expected to follow it too . |
| 17 | The materials also attempted to embody generally accepted features of good practice in adult training — boards were encouraged to work as teams ; the principles of learning through practice and participation were emphasised ; relevance both to members ' own previous experience and to real board tasks was highlighted ; and the material was designed to make it easily understood by all board members . |
| 18 | It flies in wild loops and spirals , and dives to the ground , a course of flight designed to make it as difficult as possible for the bat to catch it . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the year , the drivers make application for their super-licence , a recently introduced , sensible measure designed to make it more difficult for the totally unqualified to buy themselves drives . |
| 20 | The measure was designed to make it more difficult for crime syndicates to launder illegally acquired funds . |
| 21 | LEGAL curbs designed to make it more difficult for youngsters to smoke come into force today . |
| 22 | Again , equally importantly , the provisions , if complied with , are designed to make it very much more difficult for a defendant to make unfounded allegations that he has been ‘ verballed ’ which appear credible . |
| 23 | Muslims and Jews want to get rid of it for religious reasons ; Americans want ( wanted ? ) to get rid of it for hygienic reasons and for the hypothetical reduced risk of penile cancer in the circumcised population ; Latins love to play with it , like to keep it , and are taught to mobilise it often ; the British would like to ignore it , not to touch it , and eventually get rid of it when it causes too much trouble . |
| 24 | Can you imagine how the owner of a fine chesterfield sofa must have felt to see it thus frogmarched away to its doom under the lashing rain ? |
| 25 | What part any directors of the Grand Junction played in the syndicate is not known , but not withstanding lack of agreement with colliery owners the Grand Junction must eventually have decided to go it alone . |
| 26 | One of the original group , Crest Homes , has now decided to go it alone for the first stage of the project . |
| 27 | The aircraft sank when efforts were made to tow it ashore . |
| 28 | L2164 was set on fire , having already been damaged during the previous attack on 7th. , and was ultimately sunk after efforts had been made to tow it ashore . |
| 29 | rang bank up this morning , summat wrong somewhere and it 's supposed to be done by a computer , I do n't trust computers I do n't , I says the first I do n't know about having it back I should of said send it home send it to me address |
| 30 | Sir Thomas walked back to his room in the Imperial somewhat later than he had intended , though he was not destined to reach it quite yet . |