Example sentences of "[vb base] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Press it every day ?
2 I sense it the moment we are inside the front door .
3 I want it a bit smaller this .
4 Erm you know , five years hence , we do n't want it in five years hence , we want it the end of this year , early next year .
5 Wing and leg it The security , with its metal detectors and baggage searches , would not have disgraced an El Al chicken counter .
6 And if you show it the sweep of a gravel drive framed by cypresses and a manicured lawn , it will usher you elegantly to the ball .
7 ‘ I wear my chain of office and show it the kids and say ‘ This is yours . ’
8 Once the guttering has been removed , start on the downpipe and remove it a section at a time , starting from the top .
9 As last year , they will bring the skip on a Tuesday and remove it a week later .
10 When you put it the way you put it , I suppose I should have guessed that you had guessed .
11 Pause it a minute .
12 Well , what the government has said today is that they 're giving us some money to help us to take it and boost it a bit further and we 're very pleased to see that .
13 I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances .
14 ‘ Now hold it a minute , ’ I said , holding my hands up .
15 ‘ Yes , ’ said Matey encouragingly , ‘ we hold it every year , and we usually make quite a large sum to give to the various charities connected with the Church . ’
16 Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ?
17 I shake it a bit and hear a rattling , so I look inside .
18 I wash it every day and use plenty of light conditioner but I do n't stick to one brand .
19 I wash it every Saturday , under the hot tap .
20 5 Look it the costs involved and if these seem too high for your budget , consider joining with non-competing manufacturers .
21 do a tick and a cross if you , interpret it , interpret it the way you want to .
22 Yeah , it 's pretty good but erm the older ones think they run it a bit !
23 ‘ You consider it a success , then ?
24 We consider it a problem , though invariably others do n't understand what on earth we are talking about .
25 I just consider it a privilege to be answering the phones and sometimes to help people .
26 There are compact , slow-growing forms of nearly all our native trees , but though these are always my first option I consider it a mistake to limit planting choice to our indigenous flora .
27 On the North Shore , surfers consider it a matter of pride to go straight back out and reassert their dominance and exorcise their demons .
28 In 1878 The Royal Agricultural Society reported in their journal : ‘ This farm , in fact , has all the requisites of a prize farm , and we had therefore very great pleasure in awarding First Prize ( in all England ) to Mr Long who will , we feel certain , consider it a recognition of the untiring industry shown by himself and his wife in the management of this pretty little farm … the arable land is cultivated like a garden , being wonderfully free from weeds .
29 ‘ It was very hard work for that sort of money and I consider it an insult , ’ Austin said of the earlier award .
30 The only reason we suggest you vary it a bit is to prevent boredom .
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