Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants to see it a family home once again . ’ |
| 2 | Because he 's got this new system , he wants to use it a bit . |
| 3 | Er , and the work just gets done , you do n't need to do it every day . |
| 4 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 5 | But I do n't really want to compete in that world ; I want to do it a bit differently , something a bit more personal . |
| 6 | ‘ When talent comes through you want to give it a chance , ’ said Gooch . |
| 7 | ‘ If we can prove this works , ’ Mr Dowding said , ‘ I am sure there are a lot of other farmers who want to give it a try and are just waiting . |
| 8 | I want to give it a bit of a rest now and I 'm trying to leave it as long as possible before I have it permed again . |
| 9 | ‘ Want to give it a parking ticket ? ’ said Jimmy from his chair . |
| 10 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never understood why you want to keep it a secret — I wish I did , ’ Miranda said , returning to their perennial source of disagreement . |
| 12 | I started paying for this myself two years ago — and I want to keep it a secret from him — but now I find I ca n't continue the payments . |
| 13 | We ca n't let you know yet where exactly you will have your wonderful week , because we want to keep it a surprise . |
| 14 | The chairman , Martin Jay , told me they were always looking for new ideas to raise money but they want to keep it an event for the family , a rural event based on the race . |
| 15 | You want to warm it a bit , though . ’ |
| 16 | The pattern design is shown here and you will need to repeat it a number of times widthways to fit your pattern format . |
| 17 | I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause . |
| 18 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 19 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 20 | I want to take it a step further and say , do n't behave like that , you idiots — it 's destroying people 's lives . ’ |
| 21 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's our bicentenary here at Grindlewood and we want to make it a year to remember , ’ she said , measuring the floor with her brogues . |
| 23 | There is no more natural monopoly than the public utility of water supply and it is obscene that anyone should seek to make it the instrument of private advantage . |
| 24 | Of course we do n't want to overdo it the praise that is . |
| 25 | Even as the clamour grows for Mansell to reverse his decision to quit , the public hero has decided to give it a go in America . |
| 26 | His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day . |
| 27 | ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said . |
| 28 | They had decided to call it a day , that was all . |
| 29 | Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache . |
| 30 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |