Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Ma'am that shows you I think er the chairman has it open in front of you . |
| 2 | Within a few months of publication , however , Sony unveiled the first handheld , self-contained CD-ROM system , launching it first in Japan and then in Europe and the United States . |
| 3 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 4 | Tony caught it all on film . |
| 5 | And to look at the colourful display of begonias , geraniums and fuchsias set against the trees and shrubs , the unusual rockery plants , the miniature acres in their raised beds , linked pools and waterfall , emptying into a small bog garden , and the greenhouse brimming with plants raised from cuttings and seed , you would think the Doughtys spend hours every day keeping it all in trim . |
| 6 | Keeping it all in house , Henry Cook Lumsden Plc is the broker to the issue . |
| 7 | Whatever it is , they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness . |
| 8 | take something along there and they will value it free of charge providing you 've got a copy of the Express ! |
| 9 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 10 | When the book was nearing publication , a scientist who was sent an advance copy to review for Nature magazine was appalled to find it full of errors , with misplaced and erroneously labeled photographs and diagrams . |
| 11 | WITH their very predictable choice of players , particularly the number of England players , the Lions are going to find it tough in New Zealand . |
| 12 | Reality strikes home when the learner arrives on the ward to find it overcrowded with beds , chairs , trolleys and even patients . |
| 13 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 14 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 15 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
| 16 | This is fine in principle , but I found it awkward in practice . |
| 17 | All through the African campaign I longed to hear from you , and found it hard at times to keep a stiff upper lip without your help . |
| 18 | We found it hard at times , but my players showed character and that was what earned them both points . ’ |
| 19 | Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth . |
| 20 | Part of his apparently subdued reaction to the Nobel no doubt sprang from a genuine lack of confidence in his ability to continue writing ( it was not , for him , a novel feeling ) but he also found it difficult in conversation to react to praise or flattery — like Coriolanus , he did not like to hear his " nothings monster 'd " . |
| 21 | Many who subscribed to COS principles in theory found it difficult in practice to abandon to destitution or the Poor Law many who were in desperate and immediate need . |
| 22 | North European businesses found it satisfactory to farm out big clerical jobs to London agencies , and international corporations making domestic appliances found the nimble-fingered women of the North and Midlands surprisingly to their taste . |
| 23 | They always found it natural in government . |
| 24 | Mozart and his contemporaries , who ( unlike the English ) had no continuous tradition of listening to baroque music , found it sparse in texture in a way that to them must have seemed musically primitive . |
| 25 | Johnson found it full of weeds ; today it is tailored and fitted . |
| 26 | Her eyes lit up when she opened it and found it full of farthings . |
| 27 | The pool that had been so jarringly empty when I took my premeditated dive into it with Terry , I fell into with Toby and found it full of champagne . |
| 28 | The Staff Changes Supplement accompanying this issue of the Newsheet is distributed on the basis of one per branch representative who holds it available for inspection by all members . |
| 29 | it 's to set it all in context they understand before they come |
| 30 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |