Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
| 3 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’ |
| 4 | He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’ |
| 5 | I agree wholeheartedly , with what we were saying , what we do n't want to see is a whole one house block in the countryside , he wants to see it as part of a farmstead and order to prove that it 's going to be part of a farmstead , the buildings should be prerequisite to go up first before the house does . |
| 6 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 7 | Doug wants to sell it at its street value , which is two million dollars . |
| 8 | And buy in food , if he has to , and if anyone has a surplus to sell and wants to sell it to him . |
| 9 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 10 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 11 | However , FreeHand is simpler to use for the amateur or casual artist and this may be all the motivation he or she needs to buy it in preference to Illustrator 88 . |
| 12 | If one has to express it in percentage terms , somewhere between 10% and 49% . |
| 13 | How should you respond when there are squabbles and arguments ; when you want your own way and no one wants to give it to you ? |
| 14 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 15 | She feels she is on the verge of some interesting illumination here , but has to abandon it in order to search for Brian , to ask him to fasten the back of her dress : if she does not leave soon , she will be late for her early arrival , and moreover she has promised to meet Esther Breuer at eight thirty precisely on the corner of Harley Street and Weymouth Street . |
| 16 | My husband has to do it for me . |
| 17 | His ideas are all he has to do it with . |
| 18 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 19 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 20 | Barbra Streisand wants to do it with me . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Marlon , it 's a wonderful play for you , and Sophia wants to do it with us . |
| 22 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 23 | it 's got me going up to Alex saying er er no one wants to do it with me and he 's going look I 'll sleep with you man so I 'm going |
| 24 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 25 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 26 | But he wants to keep it in his own hands . |
| 27 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 28 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 29 | Nutrition is the process by which the body acquires all the foodstuffs it needs to keep it in good working order and converts them into energy , new body tissue and those substances necessary to keep all the body processes ( metabolism ) going . |
| 30 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |