Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 2 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 3 | We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all . |
| 4 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |
| 6 | Liverpool St Helens , relegated from Division One last year , look destined to make it two drops in two years , as do Third Division Headingley who , racked by internal politics , are contemplating a new life in Division Four North . |
| 7 | THE visit of Cheshire Jets to Crowtree tomorrow sees Dave Elderkin 's men looking to make it three wins out of three against the league 's bottom club . |
| 8 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 9 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 10 | The pragmatists , who would like to have it both ways , believe that raising taxes will bring any incipient recovery to a halt , by putting up prices and reducing the spending power of consumers , who already face the prospect of sharply falling pay settlements , which could well dip below inflation this year . |
| 11 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 12 | Halstead will look to make it four wins in four games . |
| 13 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
| 14 | If the Operator terminal is in use , the Offline System will try to access it several times in quick succession ; if it remains unavailable the Offline run will not take place and a message reporting the situation will be sent via the mail system to the Offline Manager . |
| 15 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
| 16 | Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks ! |
| 17 | Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive . |
| 18 | As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers . |
| 19 | ‘ If INCUBUS is going to become the biggest organization in Europe , you 're going to have to hit it twenty-five hours a day . |
| 20 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 21 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 22 | By the time it had found it , a lot of people in the old movies and new news business were shouting very angrily at one another down telephones , and some of them were feverishly trying to give it new instructions . |
| 23 | We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways . |
| 24 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 25 | On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row . |
| 26 | No , it 's er by the way , instead of every year now it 's , I 've to make it two years . |
| 27 | In Division Three Hereford United will be hoping to make it two wins in two … they 've a new star rising in the west Chris Pike 's his name … three goals in two games |
| 28 | In Third World countries you can have problems with water supply when women have to carry it long distances , and even in the rainy season , wells can become contaminated . ’ |