Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 2 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 3 | They 're ideal if you just want to lose it for a couple of hours , but try not to get hooked . |
| 4 | and that if we want to borrow it in a couple weeks time |
| 5 | Swap swap it with a duff one ! |
| 6 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 7 | But for UK and Irish holidaymakers who want to combine it with a Florida vacation , it is also an attractive deal . |
| 8 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 9 | So we will need a tolerant and patient horse if we want to use it as a school horse , or a plough horse , or even a dressage horse . |
| 10 | Having found this macro we want to assign it to an icon but this entails designing an appropriate one . |
| 11 | They 've spent years doing this sort of thing , now they 've decided that they want to do it for a living . |
| 12 | Start a hobby Contact your local adult education centre if you want to do it in a group |
| 13 | The couple have been offered a decoration grant of £210 , hardly enough , they say to turn it into a home . |
| 14 | But officials at both the DES and the HSE want to turn it into a specialist advisory group to the HSE . |
| 15 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 16 | Or it may be that the question you are interested in has been discussed before , but that you want to develop it in a particular way , or to extend it , or to disagree with one of its premises . |
| 17 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 18 | With machine knitting we tend to restrict it to a maximum of three stitches over three stitches because the machines are supplied with triple transfer tools . |
| 19 | Made from microwave-friendly materials , it can be used to brew and re-heat coffee quickly and removing the plunger transforms it into a stylish juice jug . |
| 20 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 21 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 22 | The residents and traders do not seem overly worried about indiscriminate parking they seem to regard it as an advantage which the town has over others . |
| 23 | Even when we are in fact focussing on spoken language , we seem to approach it with a theoretical apparatus which is more apt for the analysis of written language ’ ( 1982 , p . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , many people seem to take it as a personal insult ( on behalf of their garden ) if one says that there are n't really any plants or flowers worth pressing , so to prevent any hurt feelings I usually try to pick a few items that are possible candidates for pressing , which seems to go down much better than completely refusing someone 's kind offer . |
| 25 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 26 | I intend to do it in a proper English accent ( You can do it ) . |
| 27 | When you are pre-recording the music , remember to record it at a constant high level so that you can make all the downward level adjustments when the final transfer is made onto the video tape ; this minimises tape hiss . |
| 28 | This enables us to use a stereotaxic instrument to guide probes like lesion-making electrodes into the brain at known distances in front of , to one side of , and below one of these landmarks and guarantee to get it into a selected subcortical area . |
| 29 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 30 | The few who , influenced by psychoanalysis and poststructuralism , take a more serious approach to it , tend to address it within an orthodox social cognitivist framework , to treat it as an illustration of larger , more obviously social discursive structure , or to ground it finally in an idealized unconscious subjectivity . |