Example sentences of "[vb base] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fill your answers on the coupon provided , send it to LIVE ADS by June 1 , and Roberta is your aunt . |
| 2 | Still saying 12345 , make it sound like a question — an invitation — a refusal ; say it to express anger — sorrow — joy — simply by changing tone and inflection of the voice . |
| 3 | In other words , you enforce the performance of a new behaviour in the situation where you want it to become routine . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to get as many scousers on it as I can , and a lot of women ; I want it to favour women . ’ |
| 5 | Suffice it to say Chairman , in the intervening time the project has gone ahead with considerable erm , er , local support , both in terms of finance , but I think also in terms of the er , the effort that er , particular individuals in the area have put in to make this project happen . |
| 6 | James Hunt , QC , for the defence , put it to nurse Geeson that Allitt had told her after Liam suffered his first attack but she had forgotten . |
| 7 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 8 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |
| 9 | He has also been warned not to increase VAT or extend it to include children 's clothes , domestic fuel , books and newspapers . |
| 10 | It 's er it 's like , y'know if your dog 's called Rover , it 's if you want get it to pay attention , it 's the way you say Rover or B M W or . |
| 11 | You open the application , set it to read text , set the page orientation , tell it if the document you 're scanning is poor quality — like dot matrix print — and where it is . |
| 12 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
| 13 | It was about how difficult inventors find it to raise finance to bring their inventions to market , no matter how promising the inventions may be , and how many potentially marketable creations are languishing for lack of capital , since the financial institutions are either not interested or not prepared to take risks with anything which is not already established . |
| 14 | Retailers with power will , perhaps less commonly , use it to invoke restraints such as slotting allowances for the right of a manufacturer 's product to be on the shelves of a supermarket . |
| 15 | Some use it to scrape algae from the rocks . |
| 16 | This being so , it is surely better to acknowledge the power of behaviour and use it to improve relationships and enhance communication between people . |
| 17 | ‘ Instead of using my camera to simply record reality , I use it to improve reality . |
| 18 | They take some of the money they have cut from the training budget and use it to fund employment action . |
| 19 | From my trouser pocket I take a handkerchief , and I use it to clean fingerprints off the gun . |
| 20 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 21 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 22 | A country that has a balance of payments surplus may receive payment from the debtor 's foreign exchange reserves , receive the balance in gold , leave the money in the debtor country and use it to purchase goods and services in the future , or lend the debtor country the money to pay off the debt and receive interest on the loan in the meantime . |
| 23 | The opportunity , rather , is this : apart from lean production and quality control , one of the big domestic advantages of the best Japanese manufacturers has been the way they garner information within their own firm and use it to take decisions . |
| 24 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 25 | And , and , yes they ma use it to make paper and , as you say , to put a thickener in paints and things like that . |
| 26 | Medeva can expand this sales force and use it to develop US sales of its other products . |
| 27 | ‘ We had to keep our hands on the reins at that point in the race though we were still allowed to carry the whip and use it to prevent horses running out , refusing , or causing accidents . |
| 28 | Use it to prevent words splitting at line-endings . |
| 29 | The mercury is dumped into the rivers of the region by miners who use it to extract gold from silt . |
| 30 | it is your duty as a manager to do everything to beat the grapevine ; never use it to convey messages ; the grapevine always imputes evil motives to the most benign actions |