Example sentences of "[vb infin] it [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 'll give it some form of protection which we have n't got round to doing the erm oh |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll give it another quarter of an hour or so , ’ Laura said , ‘ and I 'll try for another reduction . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is traditionally done in early spring , although you can do it any time between autumn and late spring . |
| 8 | See it again , right , I 'll just do it this time without talking it through , and you can just watch |
| 9 | But I did n't see it that way at all — and I was very disappointed about the whole affair . |
| 10 | In some senses the VSO system had failed me — but I did not see it that way at the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | See if we can keep it that way for another twenty years . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you always keep it this cold in here ? ’ |
| 15 | Well y Yes , but no but you see if you do an emergency stop it all runs to the front anyway . |
| 16 | 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 … ’ |
| 17 | It is , I suppose , one manifestation of man 's indomitable urge to ‘ have it both ways at once ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
| 19 | I 'm I 'll I ca n't manage it this side of the weekend . |
| 20 | You 'd , you 'd expect me erm er with my finger on that pulse to have made that point to the directors , may be help me make it several times during our sort of discussions about er both this year 's budget and next year 's projections . |
| 21 | I li , I li , you can only make it this time of year . |
| 22 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 23 | So these are all factors in here which er the the Well first of all the general public was provided with a a synopsis of this if I can put it that way in that the en original consultation leaflet included er extracts from this , summaries of it er in the leaflet , er and that set out clearly the differing traffic effects of the outer northern relief road compared with the inner . |
| 24 | I 'll put it another way to you , Mr Millet . |
| 25 | Can I put it another way to you , that if houses are provided for people who have migrated from West Yorkshire to North Yorkshire , that the failure to provide for employment of an equivalent level , because I well appreciate we are not going to stop Mr Laycock driving or commute I beg your pardon commuting each day from Harrogate to Leeds , that failure failure to provide an adequate level of employment for those new residents would be contrary to the advice in P P G twelve and P P G 14 about reducing the need to travel ? |
| 26 | Let me put it this way to you Noel |