Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week a Department of Environment inspector heard a planning appeal seeking to change it into a nursing home . |
| 2 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 3 | It is this which has helped to prevent it from being completely submerged by later developments . |
| 4 | It is worth £8 million and the gallery has had to purchase it through three annual instalments negotiated with the previous owners . |
| 5 | But while that social ease can work in his favour , he has had to temper it by becoming an earnest , moderate , church-going swot . |
| 6 | The machine can completely fail to work because no-one has bothered to test it before the day . |
| 7 | No-one has bothered to tax it since 1989 . |
| 8 | Where an application under the Act for a grant or renewal of a licence or extension of permitted hours , etc. , is submitted too late for consideration by a board at a particular meeting , and the applicant has been rejected by the clerk , who has refused to place it before the board for their consideration , that decision may be subject to appeal under either 5.39 ( see M. Milne Ltd. v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 ) if the particular application was subject to an appeal under 5.39 or to a judicial review if the type of application does not allow of an appeal under 5.39 ( see Main v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 305 ; Tait v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. 340 ) . |
| 9 | In other words sex can be great fun , you do n't need to have to do it in order to just have babies . |
| 10 | And I wo n't think , said Fenella , even for an instant , that the Robe might not be here , that the Robemaker might need to return to weave it on the great Silver Looms . |
| 11 | As a matter of fact , I rarely do , but she has begun to take it for granted . |
| 12 | And she 'd forgotten to give it to you . |
| 13 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 14 | They went mad , they told us that we 'd got to take it to National Tyres , took it there , twenty three pound fifty it cost us . |
| 15 | Gloria had told her she 'd got to keep it for ever . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd wanted to see it of course , but I also wondered why he was so desperate to get here . |
| 17 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 18 | And yet how could a man so beset fail to hold it against him ? |
| 19 | He was an old hand at knowing how to steal his audiences ; he 'd managed to do it with Hanna Brunner last year and she was experienced . |
| 20 | There 's a , I , I nearly booked up tickets to go and see this , but I did n't know if anybody would fancy going to see it with me . |
| 21 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 22 | But soon — perhaps very soon — I am going to have to lay it on the line , tell them what really has been happening … |
| 23 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |
| 24 | ‘ You know , Clem , ’ Mark continued , ‘ if we ARE going to fight our way back to the top again we are going to have to do it by our own collective efforts . |
| 25 | When I come out , it 's you and me again , and he 's going to have to hear it from me . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're going to have to get it from somewhere , Tiptoe , ’ they heard him say . |
| 27 | I think I 'm going to have to eat it with my fingers . |
| 28 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 29 | The Bradys would have to agree to hold it in their house or not at all . |
| 30 | If I tell you a story you 'd have to agree to tell it to somebody else . |