Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is my assessment of the case , Madame , as I intend to report it to my commandant . ’ |
| 2 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 3 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 4 | He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’ |
| 5 | The specification was also very comprehensive , and the 1987 version added the significant message that heads and coordinators should select from and adapt the list rather than seek to implement it in its entirety . |
| 6 | With so much spare cash floating around , it was inevitable that industrious entrepreneurs would pop up to try to claim it for themselves . |
| 7 | He wants to restore it to its original castellated glory to provide a home for wife Annie and two sons and realise a 15-year dream . |
| 8 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 9 | When you want to pass it to somebody else in the press ? |
| 10 | Selling forward means selling the foreign currency today for delivery at the time you expect to receive it from your customer . |
| 11 | Doug wants to sell it at its street value , which is two million dollars . |
| 12 | And buy in food , if he has to , and if anyone has a surplus to sell and wants to sell it to him . |
| 13 | His tousled hair gave him an appealingly boyish appearance , and Robbie found herself aching to smooth it for him , to run her fingers over the dark stubble on his cheeks . |
| 14 | We all of us feel your happiness and we have come to celebrate it with you , and with your families . |
| 15 | And I want to hear it from you . |
| 16 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 17 | Turning back to the landlord , Giles Aplin said , ‘ I already know the name of the man who gave you this watch — but I want to hear it from your lips — and I want the truth . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Many British and American tourists feel that they have connections with some part of Scottish history and they want to experience it for themselves . ’ |
| 19 | if you want to discuss it with me . |
| 20 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 21 | We 've now come to expect it of him , which is remarkable for someone so young and with very little experience . ’ |
| 22 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 23 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 24 | Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate . |
| 25 | His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers . |
| 26 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |
| 27 | The cost of weapons often means they are in potentially short supply , all the more so because once commanders find that a weapon works , they want to use it for everything . |
| 28 | How should you respond when there are squabbles and arguments ; when you want your own way and no one wants to give it to you ? |
| 29 | I want to put it on me |
| 30 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |