Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] its [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxydol won out , and the so-called soap opera that was used to sell it gave its name to a genre , massively reinforced by its wholesale adoption by television all over the world since the 1950s . |
| 2 | Singapore may have to look to China to help it meet its labour needs in future . |
| 3 | The archer fish is here using water as a tool , much as the ant-lion uses sand , to help it capture its prey . |
| 4 | Scissor-snip the bacon fat at intervals to help it release its fat . |
| 5 | The Belgian state-owned Belgacom says it hopes to pick a partner by July 15 to help it develop its activities in the digital cordless phone market , Reuter reports from Brussels : if the partnership works well , the firm involved might be offered equity participation in a Belgacom mobile telephones company . |
| 6 | An MEP has made the point that the Parliament has simply not put down enough roots for it to be realistic to expect it to increase its powers . |
| 7 | It is now difficult to imagine it wending its way towards the City through open fields , the river itself , like so many of its mills , having long been engulfed by the suburbs . |
| 8 | The US KRCA-TV Channel 62 is to use it to enhance its programme distribution , video post-production and satellite links , including connections to local sport and entertainment venues and the San Francisco Satellite Centre , a divisions of Watson Communication Systems Inc is to use it for local connections to its satellite teleports for US and overseas transmissions . |
| 9 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 10 | to let it spread its wings . |
| 11 | We 're free to indulge what 's between us , to let it run its course , so why not accept the inevitable ? ’ |
| 12 | Wing Commander the Duke of Hamilton replied : ‘ My instructions are to let it run its course as if I know nothing at all about it . |
| 13 | After a month or so , its head has developed sufficiently to allow it to open its jaws . |
| 14 | It is quieter here , and we hold the shot for a time to allow it to make its impact … |
| 15 | The result is that one official feline organization will recognize the new mutation as an additional breed , while another official body outlaws it and refuses to allow it to enter its cat shows . |
| 16 | In order to allow that spiritual dimension to breathe , in order to allow it to work its healing , transformative way , we have no option but to operate in the world as it is , and to operate as gradualists . |
| 17 | This aid is made possible by donations , legacies and fund-raising activities and the Society is grateful for all such financial aid to enable it to continue its work . |
| 18 | On Nov. 7 the Joint European Torus ( JET ) , based near Oxford in the UK ( see p. 36052 ) , had issued an appeal for an additional 400,000,000 ECU over the period to 1996 , to enable it to continue its research into nuclear fusion . |
| 19 | Has the Minister any plans to assist the West Yorkshire police authority to enable it to bring its police forces up to the required standard ? |
| 20 | They were , he says , essential to the working of government when the Crown 's revenue was too small to enable it to pay its officials ‘ salaries appropriate to their rank and responsibilities ’ . |
| 21 | Neighbours beat the dog with a metal bar to make it release its grip . |
| 22 | Indeed , according to traditional scientific thought , not only does nature not know best ( science does ) , but it is blind , fickle , and must be ‘ vexed ’ , as Francis Bacon put it — rigorously put to the test in controlled experimental conditions — to make it reveal its secrets . |