Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in . |
| 2 | ‘ The money we 'll get for the house , if we 're lucky enough to sell it at a good price , will just about pay the bills . ’ |
| 3 | But these were risky gains : with little animal manure and no capital , the peasant broke up more land than he could use , only to abandon it in a drought or when prices fell . |
| 4 | Its regional press and magazine holdings went back some time but were not large enough to qualify it as a media company . |
| 5 | For Lawrence to give his imprimatur to the idea of the Commonwealth seemed sufficient rebuttal to anyone rude enough to associate it with a loss of imperial virility . |
| 6 | Their marriage had been under strain for some years and they had never been brave enough to admit it to a third party . |
| 7 | It swooped down towards Risborough and he managed to control it enough to bring it into a field |
| 8 | It seems better not to include it as a criterion of value , once it is clearly distinguished from probability . |
| 9 | My idea now is to get a type rating on the 700 , not to explore it as a journalistic exercise . |
| 10 | As constant access is needed to the board , it is probably better not to put it in a box . |
| 11 | If a truth is complicated , a character remarks in An Accidental Man ( 1971 ) , ‘ you have to be an artist not to utter it as a lie ’ . |
| 12 | If it would be a decision not to offer it to a patient dependent on the NHS must be a decision about rationing of resources rather than about clinical need . |
| 13 | Democracy was demanded , and admitted , on the ground that it was unfair not to have it in a competitive society . |
| 14 | I warned against it at the time , telling investors not to touch it with a bargepole . |
| 15 | She was perfectly turned out : patterned black tights , black pointed ballet shoes , snug black mini dress , and an expensive Marlon Brando black leather jacket with the arms hacked off to turn it into a waistcoat . |
| 16 | She was lying in a freezing ditch , still with her pet dog , four days after she left home to take it for a walk . |
| 17 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 18 | With his hold on the south complete within a year , William had both to confirm it as a long-term fact and reward his followers . |
| 19 | The English clerk would work doubly hard , either to resolve the problem or carefully to hide it behind a tissue of half-truths . |
| 20 | There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig . |
| 21 | ( Amazing how quickly BR abandoned its scheme to close Marylebone when a scheme popped up to turn it into a kind of Victoria Coach Station for northern routes ! ) |
| 22 | Although the American constitution was ratified by state legislatures , in more recent times the people are almost universally called on to ratify it in a referendum … |
| 23 | Still he was n't surprised at all at my giggles when I dragged myself back to view it for a second time . |
| 24 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 25 | It 's since been a cafe , a grill and a bric-a-brac shop , with plans now to turn it into a museum and heritage centre ; something Browne Willis would doubtless have approved of . |
| 26 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 27 | So what have you got to do to it now to make it into a ninety ? |
| 28 | But 95 per cent of the studies he reviews deal with the assessment , causes , and treatment of homosexuality , and in doing so , continue indirectly to define it as a problem . |
| 29 | If we can recognise it then we know about it ( a Person ) , or how to tackle it with a standard solution ( a disease ) , or what the significance maybe ( an inflection in a chart ) . |
| 30 | Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time . |