Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 2 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 3 | However , it should prevent anyone from mismanaging the waste and may include details of the business or process producing it in addition to a description of the physical ( or chemical ) nature . |
| 4 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 5 | Even the USA , which in the 1980s still seemed sufficiently vast and dominant to deal with its economic problems without taking any notice of anyone else , at the end of that decade became aware that it ‘ had ceded considerable control over its economy to foreign investors … ( who ) now hold the power to help keep the US economy growing , or to help plunge it into recession ’ ( The Wall Street Journal , December 5 , 1988 , p1 ) . |
| 6 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 7 | What is clear is that the word oppressive does not necessarily mean that the defendant has been induced to enter the restriction by fraud , misrepresentation , deceit or forced to enter it by duress . |
| 8 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 9 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 10 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 11 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 12 | The females , young and old , crowd around the newcomer , rumbling murmurs among themselves , caressing it with their trunks and helping to free it from its birth membranes . |
| 13 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 14 | The steep-sided valley of Stroud-Water in Gloucestershire must have presented much the same kind of picture , but Defoe does not attempt any description of it beyond saying that ‘ the clothiers Iye all along the banks of this river for near 20 miles ’ ; and Celia Fiennes passed along the high road over the uplands from Gloucester to Bath and failed to notice it at all . |
| 15 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 16 | At a meeting in Guinea-Bissau on July 25-27 , 1990 , the joint co-operation commission , meeting for the first time since the 1980 coup , decided that it was unable to settle the longstanding dispute over the demarcation of the maritime border , and agreed to refer it to their heads of state [ see also pp. 36840 ] . |
| 17 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 18 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 19 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 20 | Sony Corp has a new ‘ booksize ’ workstation it calls bigNEWS NWS-3150 , and has priced it at $5,645 , making it just possible for the individual user to afford . |
| 21 | Malta is a party to the Montreal Convention covering the trial of terrorists and has incorporated it within its own legislation . |
| 22 | The gallery has secured a newly discovered and never before exhibited example from that group ‘ Sunset at Petworth House ’ and has placed it among examples by other artists from Richard Dadd to Lucian Freud in a show called ‘ British Watercolors ’ , on from 5 May to 5 June . |
| 23 | Take A League Of Their Own , Penny Marshall 's comedy about women 's baseball during WWII , which stars Madonna and Geena Davis and has coined it in America . |
| 24 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 25 | ‘ She has been absolutely wonderful and has made it like home for us . |
| 26 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 27 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 28 | Pilar Wayne now says she ca n't afford the upkeep on ‘ La Roca ’ in exclusive Newport Beach , California , and has put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 29 | If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs . |
| 30 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |