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 . |