Example sentences of "it [prep] the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that .
2 ‘ No I do n't do it for the money really .
3 It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing .
4 I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone .
5 It may , in fact , be better to organise it for the day after you move , because being certain that everything will run according to plan on the day of the move is almost impossible , so it is better to do without your cooker overnight and schedule this for the next morning when you know you are definitely going to be there .
6 Well Miss rang me up about twenty to nine and said could I come in for the day and I said you 've had it for the day though consider the afternoon .
7 You know erm and I if she if she goes to emba cos I think she does it for the purpose really to people
8 I was doing it for the drive anyway .
9 Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else .
10 ( He had in fact put on weight while resting after Alfredo Alfredo , and needed to lose it for the role anyway .
11 My life has changed and I live around the horses and would n't change it for the world now .
12 He 's taking it for the meeting tomorrow .
13 Well at least we can plan it for the week then .
14 Oh yes , I used to save it for the garden too .
15 Baldersdale was en fête , or as near to it as the dale ever came , when Guardsman George Fawcett arrived back somewhat unexpectedly , from the war .
16 The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening .
17 ‘ Yes , and he 's going to rush it through the lab as soon as possible , he says .
18 Can someone who went say if the midfield started looking for him … ie played it through the defence occasionally for him to run onto ?
19 ‘ Put it through the computer anyway .
20 ‘ And he plays it — smashes it through the covers straight for four !
21 ‘ But it is infinitely the best show in town at a time when legislation threatens press freedom and we shall do everything we can to support it through the arguments ahead . ’
22 you can have it at the top where you 've changed it and then the window underneath you can scan it through the file again .
23 tt put it through the books there as well so
24 You can get it through the sealers quickly and under the flattener .
25 According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony .
26 ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper .
27 Right , I , the first thing I do is go out and sweep it off the road then , I ca n't , I just ca n't remember
28 ‘ If we had a dog we could let it off the leash now and it would go and roll in the heather . ’
29 She might have just had it off the hook yesterday .
30 ‘ Why do n't you give that piece of rubbish to Oxfam ? ’ he said , picking it off the mantelpiece roughly .
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