Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , what I 'm saying is some schools have lost it in year eleven as well . |
| 2 | But , as Mr Nearn points out , it is a driver 's car , and motoring journalists have heaped it with praise for many years , one even going so far as to say that your smile ‘ will need surgically removing ’ after driving one . |
| 3 | While the official figure is 25,000 miles — equivalent to circumnavigating the globe — some journalists have calculated it to be nearer 15,000 , which they suggest would leave Mr Ashdown stranded in East Timor . |
| 4 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 5 | Some shops have taken it off the shelves . |
| 6 | It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street . |
| 7 | You need a bit of luck in these games and while England have had it over the years , Wales have n't . |
| 8 | Such arguments may seem trivial when bodies as thoughtful as the Church of England have taken it upon themselves to ponder the issue of the use of nuclear weapons ; but the bomb has not gone off and when it has receded into the background we will be left with the demand for electricity . |
| 9 | As the enemy closes in , the hero , safe in the knowledge that his comrades have made it to safety , shoots himself so that the enemy may not take him alive . |
| 10 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 11 | Since then , critics of commercial pig farming have charged it with taking somewhat Stalinist counter measures : but now , in the era of glasnost , a more liberated future beckons . |
| 12 | Swindon Town have done it at last , and won a league match . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street . |
| 14 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 15 | It has previously been recorded from depths of 0–740 m but recent investigations in the Rockall Trough by the SMBA have recorded it from 1200 m . |
| 16 | " The Meeting have taken it into Consideration the Complaints which every member of this Meeting have now stated , that their Dykes and Inclosures are very much Damaged and broke down by passengers assuming to themselves a right to take Cross and Short Cuts thro' Inclosures … |
| 17 | Bauer was to describe this process as ‘ a counter-revolution ’ and Roffman and Purdy have seen it as a matter of Hollywood turning ‘ to the Right ’ . |
| 18 | Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it , creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief . |
| 19 | But only three teams have managed it in winter . |
| 20 | Critics of LMS have seen it as a way of bringing about education cuts without blame being ascribed to either local or central government . |
| 21 | Some music writers have equated it with dullness , while others have championed their lack of image and ordinariness . |
| 22 | The Conservative government 's policies on taxation and welfare have brought it into increasing conflict with the Church of England . |
| 23 | But just now it works for all of us that these Pessarane Behesht have taken it into their heads to seize the woman and child . ’ |
| 24 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 25 | This is one of the things that some studies have shown it to be the case , other studies have n't . |
| 26 | Since then , however , two further studies have shown it to be no better than placebo and inferior to 5-ASA . |
| 27 | But more recent studies have restored it to respectability ( e.g. , Hanson , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | The Star Ferry keeps on going , its little green ships bucking across the harbour in the growing swell until the last stragglers from Kowloon have made it to Hong Kong , and those bound north from the island have reached their goal . |
| 29 | You and I and Miss Watson have done it with a vengeance ! |
| 30 | Some people have likened it to a teapot , though I have never been able to make out why . |