Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parissien acknowledges another benefit : ‘ the bottom line , for those who want to see it that way , is that the course is also a guide to how to put money onto a house , rather than take it off . ’ |
| 2 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 3 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 4 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 5 | Oh if you 're silly with that the pieces will be missing by the time we want to play it next time . |
| 6 | The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader . |
| 7 | We do n't need to do it this time . |
| 8 | and say to him so and so and so and so he 'd always answer back and say I want to do it this way |
| 9 | Of more concern is the way Barnes has failed to silence his critics with his feet since his poor display and when asked if he will win his 69th cap next week , Taylor said simply : ‘ I want to give it some thought . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 11 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 12 | We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He promised to return it that evening . |
| 16 | If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast . |
| 17 | If anyone says to you , Oh you do n't want to remember it that way . |
| 18 | Consequently in an SEC Commissioners document published in February 1986 the scheme was viewed positively , but owing to competing priorities , legislation was never framed to give it Congressional backing . |
| 19 | Chief executive Jim Greenwood said : ‘ The work can not be done in a close season , so we are looking to start it next February and have the new stand ready for August , 1994 . |
| 20 | Swindon speedway hope to make it 20 league wins out of 20 at Blunsdon tomorrow … star rider Jason Crump is racing for his 10th successive maximum … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That was quick , that five forty , I was trying to work it out out because I was n't going to cancel it that way , but that 's great . |
| 24 | I 'm not going to lose it this time . ’ |
| 25 | Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What I want to do wha with the bulldozer I got I would like to poke it that shovel one . |
| 28 | Intercourse , like most activities between lovers , tends to find it sown level , largely driven by the unconscious . |
| 29 | ‘ I just happened to discover it last spring , when I was trying to find out more about the d'Urbervilles and noticed your name in the village . ’ |
| 30 | this morning he , did he actually remember to set it last evening |