Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 2 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 3 | However , it should prevent anyone from mismanaging the waste and may include details of the business or process producing it in addition to a description of the physical ( or chemical ) nature . |
| 4 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 5 | Even the USA , which in the 1980s still seemed sufficiently vast and dominant to deal with its economic problems without taking any notice of anyone else , at the end of that decade became aware that it ‘ had ceded considerable control over its economy to foreign investors … ( who ) now hold the power to help keep the US economy growing , or to help plunge it into recession ’ ( The Wall Street Journal , December 5 , 1988 , p1 ) . |
| 6 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 7 | What is clear is that the word oppressive does not necessarily mean that the defendant has been induced to enter the restriction by fraud , misrepresentation , deceit or forced to enter it by duress . |
| 8 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 9 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 10 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 11 | After the kick is executed , he returns the leg that has kicked it to the ground and immediately follows up with a roundhouse kick off the opposite leg , using the front leg as a support . |
| 12 | Sainsburys is er the very one that has done it for years ! |
| 13 | I I 've got to say that it 's somebody that 's got a personal project that has done it in one force ai n't it . |
| 14 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 15 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 16 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 17 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 18 | Erm on the understanding that for any Green Party members that want to use it over the conference . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The voice came distantly , accompanied by an echo that seemed to rob it of identity . |
| 21 | It 's an Amstrad P C W nine five one two er can anyone help other than saying put it in a carrier bag and lob it off Trent Bridge . |
| 22 | For me that meant wrapping it in a blue launderette bag which served as a case . |
| 23 | On March 22 , after an emotional debate , the Idaho state legislature passed legislation to prohibit abortion as a form of birth control , although continued to allow it in cases of profound foetal abnormality , maternal risk , and in some cases of rape and incest . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 25 | For whether or no she had been instrumental in the making of that despicable will , it was her presence here that had caused it to be made . |
| 26 | It was quite ruined thanks to the filthy water that had covered it during the flood . |
| 27 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 28 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 29 | But for all that , in its basics it was indisputably the same Indian-made version of the 1956 Morris Oxford that had lorded it over the roads of India for some thirty-odd years now . |
| 30 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |