Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Byron and Wagner are among those who found it irresistible and Hans Christian Anderson named its bay the ‘ Bay of Fairy Tales ’ . |
| 2 | Soldiers were pushing it open and Rostov saw that the whole inner yard was a clever device to protect the city . |
| 3 | He dreamed of it and of himself catching it ; imagining it lunging and threshing as he played it and tussled to land it . |
| 4 | At 2–1 up , Team Cotswold played it steady and Chelmsford were plagued with bad luck on net cords and injuries . |
| 5 | Carefully removing the long pane of glass they had loosened from the skylight frame , the two men lifted it clear and Larsen propped it against his knees . |
| 6 | Another difference between the Act and The Stock Exchange rules is that the latter specifically permit pre-emptive offers to exclude holders of shares when the directors ‘ consider it necessary or expedient … on account of either legal problems under the laws of any territory or the requirements of any recognised regulating body or any other stock exchange . ’ |
| 7 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 8 | Mr. Malone claimed that to be ‘ precisely what the government is doing — getting it patient and doctor led ’ , with reforms seeing ‘ services being delivered at recognised costs ’ . |
| 9 | Erm just remembering say I had to put four O Hs with N H , I was sometimes I was getting it right sometimes I was getting it wrong and stuff like that . |
| 10 | Fit again Les takes it nice and kneesy ! |
| 11 | Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table . |
| 12 | It is deeply offensive , some people find it wrong-headed and ill-informed . |
| 13 | They called the job crow-keeping , a phrase that Shakespeare used to describe it ; some called it bird-keeping or bird-tending — keeping the birds off the newly sown land — while others referred to it simply as rook-scaring . |
| 14 | desire is to force it open and fling |
| 15 | I mean , they make it thirty and people will travel at forty anyhow . |
| 16 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 17 | ‘ ( 1 ) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the Court of Appeal may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice … ( b ) order any witness who would have been a compellable witness in the proceedings from which the appeal lies to attend for examination and be examined before the court , whether or not he was called in those proceedings ; and ( c ) subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , receive the evidence , if tendered , of any witness . |
| 18 | Mr. Wadsworth submits that we should approach the present application on the basis of those words in the introduction to section 23 , namely the court ‘ may , if they think it necessary or expedient in the interests of justice , ’ make the necessary order . |
| 19 | I shall not go on being hard on the Labour party , because I think it natural and right that there should be different views on Europe . |
| 20 | If you 're buying a Black & Decker power tool from B&Q , Do It All or Great Mills , you will notice that they are running a special promotion at the moment — buy one of seven selected power tools , or a WM536 Workmate , and you can get a book of vouchers worth £50 , to save money on various d-i-y products . |
| 21 | As MP for Derby from 1868 to 1880 Plimsoll had for years attacked the shipowning interest and the government which supported it hip and thigh on the unnecessary loss of life and property at sea , attracting great publicity in 1875 by being ordered to retire from the House of Commons following a particularly violent denunciation of their callous and self-interested behaviour . |
| 22 | Yeah , if you add O , you put an O on it to make it plural and A you just put an E on it . |
| 23 | They talked about how to write The Yellow Chair , whether to make it stark and classical by keeping the unities , restricting the action to the terrible days of the battle with Gauguin , or whether to make it episodic and epic , to introduce Theo at least and maybe other figures , even the looming pastor from Nuenen . |
| 24 | Because they are highlighted , so too is the gender specificity of the body and the bodily experience — the constructions of the body that go to make it male or female . |
| 25 | ‘ The remit was to make it brighter and newsier , to appeal to as many employees as possible at all levels , ’ says Jones , the editorial manager . |
| 26 | The bike was sealed to make it waterproof and tracks were laid down under the water for it . |
| 27 | They had taken out all the drawers to make it lighter and Matthew brought down two of the drawers a few minutes later . |
| 28 | The point for Kojak will not be the relevance of the information , nor the nature of it , but merely that he has it and others do n't — that 's what makes it valuable and Kojak a computer stud . |
| 29 | Mona reached it before he could fling it open and order Charles out . |