Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jean Pert was sent this poem by a partner in her Prayer Chain and asked to share it with us . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our commitment to improving the environment and helping to maintain it for future generations can be summarised by these ‘ Green Rules ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 16 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |
| 17 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 18 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 19 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 20 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
| 21 | Jean held up her hand to it and when it made a bright white spot on her palm , she closed her fingers over it and pretended to give it into Donald 's hand , like a delicacy . |
| 22 | anyway Bob said oh you 'll see him on Friday , I says Bill is a busy bloke you know , I says you ca n't just go on Friday and expect to do it over weekend |
| 23 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 24 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 25 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 26 | She knew all about it in theory and tried to explain it to Enoch . |
| 27 | He pulled out his billfold and tried to hand it to me . |
| 28 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
| 29 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 30 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |