Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er of course we took away all the iron beds , put wooden beds , we put little wardrobes in the rooms and these thi tackling it bit by bit each year you see . |
| 2 | What , really , has it done for Daisy — if I had not been able to help materially ? |
| 3 | " Has it to do with Timothy Gedge ? |
| 4 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 5 | How do you know it begins with E ? |
| 6 | Stripped , tied up and left to freeze It sounds like torture — and it is for some young workers forced to endure outdated initiation rites . |
| 7 | Her car was still in the garage waiting for a visit from the insurance assessor before work could start on it , but she did n't need it to get into town . |
| 8 | THE threat of higher taxes in next week 's Budget gave the stock market a severe panic attack this week , when the FT-SE 100-Share Index was within 20 points of the 3,000 line , which the bulls had confidently expected it to reach by Budget Day . |
| 9 | Mr Catlett , a plain and practical man himself , pronounced it to rhyme with poor-net . |
| 10 | They said that within minutes of the Metro landing it burst into flames and burnt like an inferno . |
| 11 | The latest draft of the European Commission 's plan for telecommunications seeks deregulation of cross-border services within the Community from January 1996 and of all services , domestic and international , by the start of 1998 , Reuter reports from Brussels , and phone companies expect it to press for deregulation of phone service despite the industry 's reservations — ‘ It 's far too ambitious — we 're not opposed to deregulation but this is too fast , ’ Charlotte Pins , a director of corporate communications at Belgium 's Belgacom said ; France Telecom said it backed ‘ setting sights on 1998 or 2000 ’ as a deadline for freeing the phone service , but Community-wide rules on access to national networks , costs , tariffs and public service duties would have to be agreed shortly . |
| 12 | I think it 's quite legitimate for this Committee to take that twenty thousand because it 's there , and to say to itself , post budget we will have to look at the whole of the areas covered by budget protection to find the replicated twenty thousands in future years , and not just expect it to come from registration . |
| 13 | It is offered for sale by estate agents Knight , Frank and Rutley who expect it to fetch between £1m and £2m . |
| 14 | The old Indian ding-a-ling is being flogged by Sotheby 's on Friday , who expect it to fetch between £800 and £1,000 . |
| 15 | The average shrinkage level for 1991 is 24 p.c. of net profit , up a third over two years , and retailers expect it to grow in line with inflation . |
| 16 | Okay and if say it crescendoed in bar two you would go like that Say it diminuendoed in bar four you would do that . |
| 17 | Okay and if say it crescendoed in bar two you would go like that Say it diminuendoed in bar four you would do that . |
| 18 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 19 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 20 | I RANG the Israeli Embassy on Boxing Day to protest at their treatment of Palestinian deportees , only to find it closed until December 29 . |
| 21 | He threw every ounce of his energy into the run , reaching the bright street to find it deserted by traffic . |
| 22 | But the influence of one mind over another is very subtle , and of all influences religious influence is the most dangerous and the most powerful , and to counteract it courts of equity have gone very far . |
| 23 | The Asiatic spiny turtle ( left ) boasts a rim of sharp spikes around the edge of its shell , and the pancake tortoise ( bottom ) has an unusually flattened shell and body enabling it to slither to safety under low crevices . |
| 24 | First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation . |
| 25 | She used it to listen to Wagner on the tube , it turned her five-foot and a small something into a snarling Valkyrie , keeping the loonies at bay . |
| 26 | ‘ We used it to pay for car hire , the hall , flowers and drinks . |
| 27 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 28 | Because it frees performance from time , assembling it bit by bit , it encourages demystified production : ‘ Tape runs forwards , backwards and at many speeds . |
| 29 | Standalone it goes for $1,000 and $1,300 respectively . |
| 30 | I found it clutched in Anna 's hand when we cleaned her up . |