Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks ! |
| 2 | Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive . |
| 3 | As always , the Liberals try to have it both ways , but they are up against canny farmers . |
| 4 | that 's it , how are you turning round when I 've got you strapped in ? , are you , I 've fastened it both sides |
| 5 | I 've heard it many times before . |
| 6 | I 've heard it three times now . |
| 7 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 8 | I 've done it many times , and they 're wondering who they 're speaking to , is it the press , or is it some private number they 've got instead . |
| 9 | Well I 've done it six days . |
| 10 | I bet you 're right , just cos you 've done it forty times |
| 11 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 12 | I 've seen it three times now . |
| 13 | I think there must be because I 've seen it several times now and just in , in , you know |
| 14 | I 've had it five times . |
| 15 | I 've had it thirty years in my garden . |
| 16 | I 've had it three years . |
| 17 | When you 've hit it enough times it 'll die and leave an extra weapon potion and some bird seed . |
| 18 | Thank you very much , you 've copped it both ends Mr |
| 19 | We 've discussed it many times , Enid . |
| 20 | No , it 's er by the way , instead of every year now it 's , I 've to make it two years . |
| 21 | No , I know , keep the , keep the , you 've read it four times now but you hmm |
| 22 | It was so carefully written that I 've read it three times and I do n't think it says anything . |
| 23 | Erm then you gradually get used to it , and when you read it , you 've read it several times , it means something to you then . |
| 24 | Later discoveries about genetics , molecular biology , population dynamics and behaviour have given it new dimensions . |
| 25 | ( Like many new proteins this has been discovered by different groups , which have given it different names . ) |
| 26 | In Third World countries you can have problems with water supply when women have to carry it long distances , and even in the rainy season , wells can become contaminated . ’ |
| 27 | As the House knows , because I have said it several times in business questions , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has said that the establishment of a Northern Ireland Select Committee is best taken forward in the context of the fresh political talks . |
| 28 | I have taken it enough times from Steve . |
| 29 | ‘ We started this campaign three points behind — and we have ended it six points ahead . |
| 30 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |