Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 3 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 4 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 5 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 6 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 7 | Freud ignored the more likely ‘ social ’ hypothesis for feminine dissatisfaction , preferring to ascribe it to a biologically based female nature . |
| 8 | The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece . |
| 9 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 10 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 11 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 12 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 13 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 14 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 15 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 16 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 17 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
| 18 | Well can I bring , say bring it to the meeting and . |
| 19 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 20 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 21 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 22 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 23 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 24 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 25 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 26 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 27 | Swap swap it with a duff one ! |
| 28 | However , as a very occasional desperation measure if a flower or leaf is useless because it has inadvertently been creased or folded , I have been known to try pressing it with an iron on the lowest setting . |
| 29 | She needed a back pack and she needed some soap and a tooth travelling tooth brush , eh , yes that looks alright , knock knock it of the . |
| 30 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |