Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Alec , ’ I said , a little desperately , ‘ I 've got to do it the only way I know how to . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |