Example sentences of "[vb base] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You want it the hard way ? |
| 2 | Put it the other way round , what incentives have the police or the white working class got not to be racist ? |
| 3 | Well we 'll put it just put it the other side of the line . |
| 4 | I think that I put it the other way round last time . |
| 5 | And then , put it the other way i if there were nothing that side you 'd have to put it on B because that 's ready to run . |
| 6 | Right , so when you measure that , okay , you best put it the right way up so you can see what you 're doing , and we 'll turn it back in a minute . |
| 7 | Put it the right way up then Kathleen ? |
| 8 | According to Maybury-Lewis ( 1971 : 33–6 ) , the Shavante , both men and women , have a passion for meat , and consider it the prime delicacy : in fact , however , they subsist primarily on wild roots , nuts , and fruits from the collecting trips of women . |
| 9 | It 's usual to hang ceiling paper parallel with the main window in the room , but if you 're tackling the job for the first time and the room is noticeably shorter in one dimension , you may find it easier to manage shorter lengths and hang it the other way . |
| 10 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 11 | Eat three good meals a day , give it the big lips at night and then go and eat a Chinese or fish and chips . ’ |
| 12 | All you or your workmen have to do is supply a concrete base and clad the outside walls in brick or stone and give it the finishing touches . |
| 13 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 14 | That one , that one , page two , get it the right way up , that one , like that , that 's it . |
| 15 | The next point that I wanted to turn to is who the duty of care is owed owed to , er as I understand it the present law is quite clear . |
| 16 | And erm Y equals X squared , and that 's Y and that 's an X. Then turn it the other way up to get X equals Y squared , and now that 's the Y and this is the X. |
| 17 | you turn it the other way round , everybody knows that . |
| 18 | and a half , one over two the reciprocal of a half if you turn it the other way round it 's two over one |
| 19 | ‘ Try it the other way round . |
| 20 | Ian : I turn it round and try it the other way . |
| 21 | You try it the other way round . |
| 22 | A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws . |
| 23 | Zoologists term it the Patagonian cavy for it is related to guinea pigs or cavies of the Andes . |
| 24 | ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film , ’ says Singleton . |
| 25 | Singleton : ‘ I term it the Afro-centric new wave in film ’ |
| 26 | Yes , I make it the other |
| 27 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 28 | in , in wha what is Jordan really , not what was Jordan , what is Jordan they call it now , they call it the occupied territories it seems to clean it up if you call it that . |
| 29 | More widely , engineers call it the concrete cancer . |
| 30 | Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ? |