Example sentences of "[prep] it and [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored . |
| 2 | And I was n't cold — I just liked wearing my anorak because I was fond of it and felt comfortable in it . |
| 3 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 4 | Since this is the case , it 's important to make the best of it and follow some basic rules that will aid you to master the art of castrametation . |
| 5 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he added Coun. John Williams , the Labour group leader , said Coun. Richmond 's invitation was premature : ‘ He is being too hasty . |
| 8 | I hope today we can get rid of this issue we can put it where it belongs in the House Of Commons , we can get rid of it and make sure that Leicestershire helps that and I am still willing to talk to the hunt . |
| 9 | I love aspects of it and hate other aspects of it . |
| 10 | So we 're trying to encourage the equipment suppliers now to look again at what they have won on business for Eurofighter and perhaps allocate the work between themselves a lot more efficiently so that instead of each one of the four members building a given percentage of the five items , they say right we 'll take this one , all of it and we 'll build all of it , you take that one , all of it and build that one and so on an and in that way we might be able to er er improve considerably on the costs of production . |
| 11 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
| 12 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 13 | Why do n't you get rid of it and give that customer a twenty four hour delivery service |
| 14 | The Bank of England stepped in , took over the running of it and provided sufficient loans to cover the demands of its creditors . |
| 15 | Steve says he gets great satisfaction out of it and making one par in a round of 18 makes it worthwhile . |
| 16 | Saw how he grasped every last detail of it and held that knowledge tight in his memory . |
| 17 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 18 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 19 | I parked behind it and prepared some sarky backchat if the owners turned out to be sightseers . |
| 20 | I ses let's get on with it and stop this shilly-shallying . ’ |
| 21 | It is in no sense a rival body to the National Institute for the Deaf but works in active co-operation with it and has direct representation there on . |
| 22 | It is good practice to go through any document before parting with it and eliminate any word that is not essential to conveying the precise meaning intended . |
| 23 | Wetherall just got on with it and won all the important headers . |
| 24 | … With regard to the charges register , there is no ground for interfering with it and directing any rectification . |
| 25 | He glimpsed a fallacy , said ‘ Longer to us , I mean ’ with a vague interest in nailing it , and then thought the hell with it and bought some very expensive soap . |
| 26 | That is stored in a database and any Staffs school with the right technical facilities may log into it and get up-to-date details of the farm . |
| 27 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 28 | He pushed a clip into it and rammed four more into his jacket pockets . |
| 29 | The vital thing is to know what you are getting into before you get into it and to make sure that , even with the slow payment , it is still a good deal and that you will have enough cash to survive until you are paid . |
| 30 | Among the many ‘ thank-you ’ letters I wrote , I sent one to Alan Shell of the Humanist Association , who replied , ‘ We are very glad our letter was of help to you and you will be interested to know that I propose to send copies of your letter , with your name deleted , to our funeral officiants in the hope that they will take courage from it and help any others who might be in similar difficulties . ’ |