Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He is made to jump it a third time , even if you have to stand there all night .
2 Alibert fresh pasta from Olga Catering is also in special packaging , which is said to give it a guaranteed shelf-life of 60 days .
3 ‘ Having decided to make it a musical , ’ wrote Alexander Stuart in Films and Filming , ‘ William Sterling should have had his team work on the songs until they were really worth including until they added something to the tale . ’
4 The thermal properties of diamond are seen to make it an attractive substrate material for chips that get excessively hot , enabling silicon circuits to be packed much more tightly than on other substrates .
5 It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them .
6 The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul .
7 I understand they were persuaded to give it a further year 's grace in the hope of improvements to its organisational structure .
8 I am again told to give it a good , hard look .
9 and , and play he said , and then try it for a , but he said you 've got to do it a few times
10 ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to .
11 you know , but , you , not only have you got to get the right colour and everything , you 've got to hold it the correct distance away from the metal
12 Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power .
13 The fabric may be textured to give it a rougher surface , resembling canvas .
14 I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’
15 His parents ' cottage was restored to make it a suitable birthplace for such a great man .
16 Fortunately there was enough left to make it a good movie .
17 She would have liked to do it a further time , after luncheon , but Alexandra was adamant .
18 But Inmos Ltd was determined to make it a high profile affair .
19 This game can be repeated to make it the best of five .
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