Example sentences of "[vb base] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am .
32 Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate .
33 The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery .
34 On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 .
35 But even if we 're not involved directly , I mean are you saying then that we perhaps put it to one side , it 's happening somewhere else ?
36 I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat .
37 If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer .
38 Put it on one side , lad .
39 The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit .
40 I think she should mentally wrap him in a parcel , tie it tight with string and put it on one side for the moment .
41 Well he 's only put it on one side .
42 Just put it on one side .
43 Yes , I did , I put it on that way
44 There was an old Intelligence adage which held that if you want to hide something , put it on public view .
45 He said I know I put it on full power .
46 He had been scouring a pan , but now put it on another jerry-can to drain , alongside two clean plates .
47 These fellows for fun would pinch one and put it on another step , and do this going all down the road .
48 And then you you used to have a blow lamp to heat it up and after that you you erm put it on half compression and you were turning one of the big flywheels round until it it started and you had to keep the blowlamp on it .
49 I put it on this morning he did n't like it .
50 Put it into first gear and he said , and the light went out , he said oh yes that 's fine .
51 So , it 's the difference between audiences : if you put it into one context it 's bad art , you put it into another context , it 's brilliant information .
52 Yeah , , try try and erm , put it into literal translation , to modern English .
53 If you 've got no choice but to get out and walk then you are gon na have to do that , and that 's all very well being a day like today , where it 's not pouring down with rain er , you 're not walking in a pitch black area , but if you do suddenly change that and you put it into those sort of , well that sort of scenario you 'll find it 's very , very , frightening .
54 So , it 's the difference between audiences : if you put it into one context it 's bad art , you put it into another context , it 's brilliant information .
55 So we put it into this pot and we invest it in as many funds and spread the money out , so if , if one fund does n't produce very much in return , another fund will , and so we in fact , get a better spread throughout the market , than you could do as an individual .
56 We Jus Ha a length of them , put it around this thing like that , and then when you started twisting , it would have a They 'd be feeding more That was a quite an art again , feeding more and more straw into it you know , as I backed along .
57 Why does n't it just , put it in upper case then ?
58 Put it in that sack , ’ he said to Hugh .
59 it will be better if you put it in that toy machine mum
60 and when we put it in that toy machine , we could mix it like that would n't need you to do it would it ?
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