Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grandad Terry Potter had only just installed it to stop Adam 's bids to get into the street at Barnsley , South Yorks . |
| 2 | There seems , anyway , to be a metaphorical confusion in this idea : if the inner life is in need of air , how come it takes place in the least accessible parts of our being ? |
| 3 | The problem with dinghy sailing is that once the sailing bug is caught it grabs hold . |
| 4 | The library committee had found other staff very responsive to such ideas and a staff workshop had been planned , although industrial action had prevented it taking place . |
| 5 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 6 | Although I have earlier granted it to simplify matters ( p. 21 ) , premiss ( 1 ) is not nearly so firm as an objector might like . |
| 7 | THE Queen came under fire last night when it was revealed it costs £369,000 for a day 's sailing in the royal yacht Britannia . |
| 8 | he 's built it see Ange . |
| 9 | Novell has said it expected Univel to do over $5m worth of business during the quarter just closed . |
| 10 | Fleet has already said it expects $350m a year of cost savings . |
| 11 | This is a very simple philosophy but , in my experience , I have seen it work time and time again . |
| 12 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 13 | Whichever way word- processing is used it gives learners the means of refining text until it satisfies them . |
| 14 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 15 | The US National Institute of Standards & Technology has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . |
| 16 | The US National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) has used it to increase performance of robotic factory operations . |
| 17 | The Ancient Greeks would have used it to learn scales . |
| 18 | For example the Labour party planned to abolish compulsory competitive tendering in the public sector although many managers would have still continued with the practice if convinced it brought efficiency gains . |
| 19 | Yeah , I 've just got it going granddad . |
| 20 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 21 | You 've told it to spell check . |
| 22 | It merely said that the president had never told it to question Kenya 's one-party system . |
| 23 | She may have used the window as a convenient piece of misdirection , or she may have opened it to let Latimer in . |
| 24 | But not far behind in the firing line are welfare-dependent single-parent families , now so used to being vilified it seems time to offer a blindfold and last cigarette . |
| 25 | Venners , the ‘ Son of Fred ’ to quote the title of his autobiography , came from a council estate in Dagenham or Corned Beef City as he and his street-pals irreverently called it to taste fame , fortune and hero-worship . |
| 26 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 27 | Suter chairman David Abell said of the Chemoxy operation : ‘ The skills of its management and flexibility in adapting to difficult market circumstances have enabled it to seize opportunities . ’ |
| 28 | The NPFL 's advance had enabled it to secure control of the port of Buchanan , 100 km south-east of Monrovia , after fierce fighting on May 23 . |
| 29 | The intimate relationship of Blackpool with the Wakes Weeks towns had enabled it to raise capital for its piers , Winter Gardens and other improvements . |
| 30 | To have found it turns evil to great good . |