Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meat from their Old Spots is succulent , free-range and in such demand that the Russells have enough orders to sell it four times over . |
| 2 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
| 3 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 4 | ‘ It is a fantastic achievement to win here just once but to do it six times is amazing and a very special feat . ’ |
| 5 | But for the moment , alas , there was only a ropy old futon on which to do it four times a night and the prospect of another day filled with sweet governmental messages of the ‘ I want to lick you all over ’ variety . |
| 6 | ‘ You dream about scoring at Anfield — but to do it both ends and to silence the Kop is a fantastic feeling . ’ |
| 7 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 8 | By the time it had found it , a lot of people in the old movies and new news business were shouting very angrily at one another down telephones , and some of them were feverishly trying to give it new instructions . |
| 9 | It is also a good idea to give it some toys . |
| 10 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 11 | Now is the time to give it those tools . |
| 12 | A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections . |
| 13 | He says it 's another shock , to extend it five years — it 's more devastating than it was to begin with — yet more uncertainty . |
| 14 | In order to ease it many diversions are tried . |
| 15 | Some then leaned on the rope , hauling the boar through the water , while others stayed behind to guide it round rocks and counteract the drag of the current . |
| 16 | A researcher reports a particular result , and to verify it other scientists repeat the same experiment in their own labs . |
| 17 | Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks ! |
| 18 | Lord Finlay implied that the trust mechanism could be adapted for use in international law , whereby a new State could be a beneficiary of rights contained in an agreement between other States which are bound by the agreement to accord it those rights . |
| 19 | As we have so much control in forming a horse 's habits it is up to us to teach it good ones ; and not through our own lack of thought or knowledge , or want of kindness and sensitivity , impair the horse ; or even worse , teach it such bad habits that its life will be a misery to itself or others . |
| 20 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 21 | ‘ If INCUBUS is going to become the biggest organization in Europe , you 're going to have to hit it twenty-five hours a day . |
| 22 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 23 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 24 | In Third World countries you can have problems with water supply when women have to carry it long distances , and even in the rainy season , wells can become contaminated . ’ |
| 25 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 26 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 27 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 28 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 29 | We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways . |
| 30 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |