Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 2 | It did n't win it any friends in the Sun Microsystems Inc camp , where they could stand a few friends . |
| 3 | Let me , give it two minutes in the microwave . |
| 4 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 5 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
| 6 | ‘ We 'll give it another quarter of an hour or so , ’ Laura said , ‘ and I 'll try for another reduction . |
| 7 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 8 | But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ? |
| 9 | This is traditionally done in early spring , although you can do it any time between autumn and late spring . |
| 10 | See it again , right , I 'll just do it this time without talking it through , and you can just watch |
| 11 | We could say , we could entitle it industrial relations in Northumberland ? |
| 12 | But I did n't see it that way at all — and I was very disappointed about the whole affair . |
| 13 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 14 | I do n't see it that way at all but if they 're right er I 'd defend your invitation and my acceptance by quoting the old idiom , better the devil you know . |
| 15 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 16 | See if we can keep it that way for another twenty years . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you always keep it this cold in here ? ’ |
| 18 | Well y Yes , but no but you see if you do an emergency stop it all runs to the front anyway . |
| 19 | You know , just let's take it one step at a time please . |
| 20 | Partly , Davie believes , because the British are now too ignorant of prosody to be able to hear Bunting 's precise , subtle music ; partly because , as an associate of Pound and Zukovsky , he is ‘ an embarrassment to the numerous English historians who would have it that modernism in poetry was a temporary , American-inspired distraction from a native tradition … ’ |
| 21 | It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
| 23 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 24 | Well I 'll I 'll fax it first thing in the morning on Monday right or somebody will so you can get it y'know we just need to monitor it for a week and that 's it . |
| 25 | But if not , we may find that Britain , which entered the war arm-in-arm with the US , will leave it arm- in-arm with the Europeans . |
| 26 | I 'm I 'll I ca n't manage it this side of the weekend . |
| 27 | Might just about make it one way without registering , but certainly not both . |
| 28 | Might just about make it one way without registering , but certainly not both . ’ |
| 29 | That will be another hour and one minute , which will make it one minute past six . |
| 30 | He could well land the opening three races with Royal Wonder , Pertemps Network and Huntworth , while Star 's Delight can make it two wins in as many days by taking the Rainford Conditional Jockeys Handicap Chase . |