Example sentences of "it open [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed through another battered-looking swing door and held it open for her . |
| 2 | Did they they think the bloody Turks would leave it open for them ? |
| 3 | Peter moved towards the door and held it open for her . |
| 4 | In a world where British influence is conspicuously waning it might not be in the interests of a secure national identity to throw it open for young Britons to gaze on . |
| 5 | ‘ I had kept it open for Ross as long as I could . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 7 | Is it open for parties to the Statute to decide that other States should either commit themselves to the Statute ( by complying with the Security Council conditions ) or be denied access to the Court , or must the agreement of all non-party States be obtained ? |
| 8 | Or leave it open for some questions if you want to test a ps specific thing in another question then try and test that . |
| 9 | At the car , he reached to unlock her door , held it open for her , watched as she climbed in and reached for her strap . |
| 10 | A large new foodmarket was being built on the opposite corner , with the land around it open for parking . |
| 11 | He pushed it open for them and they went inside . |
| 12 | At the hotel Luke collected both keys from the night porter , and when they reached her room he unlocked the door and held it open for her , then closed it behind him . |
| 13 | Clare , who was carrying Carolyn 's suitcase , leaned against a door to hold it open for her . |
| 14 | If a participant leaves in other circumstances ( retirement excepted ) the option will lapse unless the Directors exercise their discretion to keep it open for a longer period . |
| 15 | It was stuck and Matthew pushed it open for her . |
| 16 | ‘ This leaves it open for staff to use their ingenuity , good sense , and professionalism ’ . |
| 17 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 18 | Tolonen gave a short laugh then glanced briefly at the Captain , before taking the clipboard back from his daughter and holding it open at the place she indicated . |
| 19 | You ca n't just leave it open at the end . |
| 20 | But tonight , although she had left it open on many other nights , it happened to be locked . |
| 21 | So er just beware of what you 're doing when you , when you , course you can actually keep a mortgage a a account open , in other words you can keep it open on a pound a year whatever it is with the Halifax . |
| 22 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 23 | Try wearing it belted over a pair of tailored trousers , for a smart look , or leaving it open over casual separates . |
| 24 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 25 | But its uniqueness , its disturbing habit of making immediate and concrete things which are best revered from a distance has laid it open to charges of ‘ magic ’ or ‘ blasphemy ’ or ‘ sacrilege ’ or ‘ obscenity ’ . |
| 26 | So , they have decided to throw it open to Europe-wide competition to decide our ‘ trade name ’ . |
| 27 | Bits and pieces are still filtering out from IBM Corp 's conference call with analysts after its third quarter figures last week , and its director of investor relations Jim Clippard finally acknowledged that IBM could cut its workforce even more than the 25,000 announced in December , late in second quarter or in the third quarter : ‘ It 's clear to me that they have to go well beyond the 25,000 , ’ said PaineWebber analyst Stephen Smith , ‘ Maybe even 50,000 ; ’ analysts told Reuter that IBM said the majority of its targeted 25,000 plus staffers will leave the company during the second quarter , leaving it open to another plan in the second half of 1993 . |
| 28 | Cressey ( 1962 ) himself saw that the lack of specificity on the actual process of learning was a problem with the theory , but pointed out that Sutherland had left it open to clarification in the light of future developments in learning theory . |
| 29 | Perhaps inevitably , this left it open to attempted incorporation by behaviourist psychology : Burgess and Akers ( 1966 ) provided a translation of differential association into the language of behaviourist ‘ reinforcement ’ theory . |
| 30 | He is quoted as saying : This formulation left it open to those in the electorate who were disenchanted with nationalisation to suppose that there would be little if any more , and to those on the left wing of the Labour Party to expect that there would still be a lot . |