Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeman tried to render it useful by identifying five meanings for it : |
| 2 | But Mick and I never questioned ourselves ; we just tried to keep it all on the road . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 4 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 5 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 6 | In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday . |
| 7 | I 've got a lot of stuff to do , got to put it all in order . |
| 8 | And I began to feel it heavy upon me , that I must do her will . ’ |
| 9 | It seems that the warehouse workers decided to blast it loose with dynamite . |
| 10 | We decided to leave it all before the Lord and relax , and we planned a visit down to the base in June . |
| 11 | She needed to keep it all to herself for a few hours — hours in which she could live that precious time over and over again , recall his kisses , his voice and , above all , the look in his eyes . |
| 12 | I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia . |
| 13 | If it chose to put it all outside the town centre , what then subsequently occurred in the town centre under I twelve would not be damaging its allocation against the structure plan policy outside the town centre . |
| 14 | She managed to get it right by watching the woman opposite to her . |
| 15 | Had to leave it all behind t other side , d you see ? |
| 16 | I had to do it all by myself . |
| 17 | Then when he was entertaining one of his friends he could n't get his stove to burn right and he had to keep it alight with matchboxes and cheese straws . |
| 18 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 19 | She knew what she wanted to learn and she knew where it was ; she just had to shovel it all into her head . |
| 20 | And Gloucester MP Douglas French wants the law tightened to make it harder for magistrates to ignore police advice in serious cases . |
| 21 | ‘ He wished to make it clear for the purposes of this case that there had been a genuine company in Bombay called Rasiklal & Sons , ’ Dutta told Snaresbrook Crown Court . |
| 22 | So there was no question but that section 2 of the 1911 Act applied to make it unlawful for any person to communicate information without authorization . |
| 23 | Now a lot of people when that was first mentioned said ‘ I do n't need that , it 's all right you can look at them if you want to ’ , but afterwards , half-way through their course , they wanted to know that they were theirs and other people would n't see them and have this reassurance that if they wanted to watch it and then wipe it blank , or if they wanted to wipe it blank without ever having seen it themselves , they could do that and no-one was going to ask ‘ What 's going on ? ’ . |
| 24 | I wanted to put it all behind me , but every time I tried the TV footage would come back to haunt me the following week . |
| 25 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 26 | We wanted to make it simpler for people to understand . |
| 27 | We wanted to make it easier for people to get the money to which they were entitled , and I set my hand to introducing the reforms in a way that would enable people to do so . |
| 28 | Sir Patrick said he wanted to make it clear to the public that the Government was backing the police to the full . |