Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 2 | Consequently in an SEC Commissioners document published in February 1986 the scheme was viewed positively , but owing to competing priorities , legislation was never framed to give it Congressional backing . |
| 3 | Liverpool St Helens , relegated from Division One last year , look destined to make it two drops in two years , as do Third Division Headingley who , racked by internal politics , are contemplating a new life in Division Four North . |
| 4 | No one had yet bothered to feed it standard crisis input notice . |
| 5 | So we 've got to have that statement in and we 've got to differentiate it some way or from the |
| 6 | No , I have always preferred to do it this way , though I must say the Missa Solemnis is a very difficult work to direct . |
| 7 | Others have had to do it other people in other countries . |
| 8 | I think it is very sad they 've had to do it that way . |
| 9 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 10 | There 's never any time , Lucy , you 've got to give it real time . |
| 11 | So you 've got to give it some heat to help the oxygen to work . |
| 12 | ‘ E said I 'd got to give it another go . |
| 13 | I mean to have to work out from first principles erm four plus three is seven every time , you may be able to do that with great understanding , but there 's an awful waste of time if you 've got to understand it each time . |
| 14 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 15 | Since considerations of probability are to the fore in one part of actual scientific practice bearing on causation , and there is little attempt to go beyond them , and there is to hand the Probability Calculus , we are invited to take it that causation can come to no more than probability . |
| 16 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 17 | Copses and woodland which farmers might destroy if they were n't subsidised to keep it this way . |
| 18 | Copses and woodland which farmers might destroy if they were n't subsidised to keep it this way . |
| 19 | a person commits an offence if , for payment or not , he knowingly exposes or delivers to another person who has not consented to receive it any item which , on the ground that matter contained or embodied in it — ( a ) is concerned with human or animal sexuality , or ( b ) depicts violence or cruelty , or ( c ) is gruesome or disgusting , may , if taken as a whole , be expected to outrage the majority of persons who are likely , having regard to all relevant circumstances , to read , see or hear it . |
| 20 | ‘ I had hoped to make it this week , but it is still a bit sore and , with the British Open in mind , I felt another few days rest would be a safer precaution . ’ |
| 21 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 22 | This method has been taught for many years and I do not think that pilots who have learned to do it this way need bother to change . |
| 23 | - While the government broke the strike , they were unable to destroy the union and were forced to concede it legal recognition . |
| 24 | I would have liked to wear it thirty years later when I travelled in the deserts of southern Arabia , but by then it had been lost . |
| 25 | I was determined to give it maximum prominence . |
| 26 | Quite a bit of space will be taken up by the timing mechanism and , of course , it will have to be weighted to give it negative buoyancy . ’ |
| 27 | Either way ( and the suspicion must be that some historians are determined to have it either way ) , blame for the collapse of the Carolingian state is laid at the door of the Frankish nobility . |
| 28 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |