Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to talk about it some time . ’ |
| 2 | So therefore we 've got to look at it that way . |
| 3 | Can we start to look at it this time from the benefits to some people in terms of travel and a quiet environment ? ’ |
| 4 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 5 | You would n't if you , you would n't if you had to deal with it all day long |
| 6 | I think that there 's a lot for your Lordship to read but I think it might be beneficial in the long run , it was certainly , our experience has been that it certainly would take time in the long run but to deal with it this way . |
| 7 | I am , I am indeed , yes , yes , I I 've got to deal with it some way , somehow . |
| 8 | Alternatively , the vendor may require the purchaser to assign to it all rights against third parties but the purchaser will wish to restrict the vendor 's ability to commence proceeding against customers as this may affect the goodwill of the business ; ( h ) to limit some of the warranties to the best of the vendor 's knowledge , information and belief . |
| 9 | You may need to run through it several times before you have a clear idea of the pitch . |
| 10 | The Government 's examination advisers have already been told to see to it that marking is stricter next year . |
| 11 | ‘ If there are riot police , ’ he says , ‘ then vigilantes will appear , because there will always be somebody to see to it that crime is never given a free rein . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not disposed to argue about it this evening . |
| 13 | But he was not going to quibble about it this time . |
| 14 | But it 's not , well , responsible to think about it that way . |
| 15 | We 'll have to think about it this week while they 're away , they 're on holiday this week . |
| 16 | To think of it that way . |
| 17 | So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get . |
| 18 | As X becomes a very very very small number , or a large negative number , if you like to think of it that way , where X is very large . |
| 19 | To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them . |
| 20 | Or , to get at it another way , here is a miscellaneous list from my own notebook of possible motives for murder : financial gain , self-protection , to preserve status , fear , to protect a loved one , for a principle , for revenge ( but remember credibility here : only in some societies is revenge stoked up enough to lead to killing ) , the drive to power , compensation for past humiliation , removing a bar to sexual happiness ( bother the permissive society , but impediments do still exist ) , jealousy , the desire to cock a giant snook at the whole world . |
| 21 | What have you got to say about it all Dorothy ? |