Example sentences of "[n mass] [be] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The simplest way to destroy an ailing fish is to hold it in a damp cloth and dash it smartly against a hard surface such as a concrete path . |
| 2 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
| 3 | People are doing it for him because they loved him very much and he was a very funny guy as well as a kind person . |
| 4 | ‘ We have spent a lot of time explaining it and we think people are approaching it in an open way . ’ |
| 5 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 6 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 7 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 8 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 9 | hundred quid 's putting it on the light side . |
| 10 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 11 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 12 | The simplest way to understand how catallaxy works is to imagine it to be a game . |