Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 2 | panel seeks to make that two million pounds , subject to the appropriate level of grants and borrow approvals and perhaps some assistance from within our own resources and elsewhere being budget , this is a , a firm intention to increase that figure , but we can not say it has been increased yet , to do so will be premature , but that I ask the committee to accept it this morning as a recommendation from the |
| 3 | The only comic note was struck by two escaping prisoners , handcuffed to each other , legging it either side of a lamp post , a way to make little progress . |
| 4 | It did n't win it any friends in the Sun Microsystems Inc camp , where they could stand a few friends . |
| 5 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 6 | " Take a good piece of veal , about three pounds in weight , brown it both sides in butter . |
| 7 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 8 | I used it this morning on one of Slash Harry 's victims and the edge is rather blunted " — his mania for self-advertisement and his intolerable bucolic laugh , and was grateful that at least he would n't be interrogating that redoubtable old phoney . |
| 9 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 10 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 11 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 12 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 13 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 14 | they want it both sides of the coin do n't they ? |
| 15 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 16 | Put it more milk over the , that , what about that bit there dad . |
| 17 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 18 | Put it this way at least my Mum never beat up my Dad . |
| 19 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 20 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 21 | bash it five minutes down the road , bang bang |
| 22 | I was going to , one of the , the many things that I went to away last meeting with was , was the idea of , that I 've missed it this time for Playback is a list , a listings kind of mechanism , so obviously this is the first one |
| 23 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
| 24 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 25 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll give it another quarter of an hour or so , ’ Laura said , ‘ and I 'll try for another reduction . |
| 27 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Charles let it all flow over him . |
| 30 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |