Example sentences of "[vb base] it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fill your answers on the coupon provided , send it to LIVE ADS by June 1 , and Roberta is your aunt . |
| 2 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 3 | But campaigners say it treats refugees as criminals . |
| 4 | It had other beneficial and related properties too , as Martin notes that ‘ the plant itself is not used , but the root is eaten to expel wind , and they say it prevents drunkenness by frequent chewing of it ’ . |
| 5 | Sir it dealing with drainage matters , I think there 's general agreement from Yorkshire Water that the preference is the new settlement should drain should should either g be within I think I I put it detailed figures in my in my statement . |
| 6 | If we stopped trying to rig the market in money and instead let it change hands between willing borrowers and willing lenders , its price would certainly tumble and might just about halve . |
| 7 | In practice , it will probably try to get away with transfer prices that let it shift profits into low-tax countries . |
| 8 | If the LTA really wants to break down the class barriers in British tennis , then let it encourage families of lesser means into the game — not discourage them . |
| 9 | The church has a mission ; let it provide money for the mission . |
| 10 | We let it become part of us , like a rotting tooth which we tolerate and forget . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Let it take place in a natural environment . ’ |
| 12 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 13 | Analysts predict it to report profits of £41 million in 1991 , compared with £63 million in 1990 . |
| 14 | ‘ I know it brought tension between Shana and I but if you 're going to do a job properly you have to be prepared to put yourself out . |
| 15 | Did you erm put down , you know it says purpose of proposed address ? |
| 16 | Well I think that 's the intention but as you know it says M in there |
| 17 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 18 | a subtle taste , you know it need loads of ground almonds |
| 19 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
| 20 | I suppose it takes years for two cultures to achieve perfect harmony . |
| 21 | my Lord we se , I do n't think that 's true because what we 're saying and if and I believe it does flair from our keepers that erm we have to prove we 've got to prove that these restrictions would of lead to category of business from what the |
| 22 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 23 | Small comfort for those languishing in the prisons or holed up in the hills , one suspects , but their toils have been translated into the stuff of great writing — Gabriel Garcia Marquez , Mario Vargas Llosa and Graham Greene have , in different ways , picked over the moral and political wreckage of Latin America , and you feel it needs writers of their calibre to make sense of it . |
| 24 | Some use it to scrape algae from the rocks . |
| 25 | From my trouser pocket I take a handkerchief , and I use it to clean fingerprints off the gun . |
| 26 | Occasionally it would extend one of its sensors and use it to draw shapes in the dirt . |
| 27 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |
| 28 | The mercury is dumped into the rivers of the region by miners who use it to extract gold from silt . |
| 29 | I use it to keep track of editorial costs in the office and it 's perfectly adequate for my needs . |
| 30 | bet it snows trees at the front of our |