Example sentences of "and [vb base] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 2 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 3 | They 've been through a lot and want to put it behind them . |
| 4 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 5 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 6 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 7 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
| 8 | anyway Bob said oh you 'll see him on Friday , I says Bill is a busy bloke you know , I says you ca n't just go on Friday and expect to do it over weekend |
| 9 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 10 | Now they are much more relaxed and hope to turn it to their advantage while still denying involvement . ’ |
| 11 | We have now agreed to produce a joint leaflet and hope to distribute it to BMH and Sorrento , reaching mothers we have n't reached before . |
| 12 | But all of them endorse one or the other of the principles of political neutrality mentioned above and seek to implement it by some variant of the following principles of restraint which limit the political relevance of ideals of the good . |
| 13 | Both groups purport to find their principle validated within the criminal law but both tend to assume that they have found the master principle and seek to defend it at every turn . |
| 14 | I wonder whether you could define the circumstances in which it is appropriate for the Government to introduce a law reform Bill and seek to push it through all its procedures in a day without it going to a Standing Committee to be considered carefully as to its detail , when it happens that there is no particular circumstance of urgency and when the reform concerned could lead to considerable difficulties for the courts if the measure is not fully considered ? |
| 15 | They are still excited by the house , and enjoy sharing it with their guests . |
| 16 | continue to jog people 's memory to actually get collecting and get sending it to you . |
| 17 | This enables us to use a stereotaxic instrument to guide probes like lesion-making electrodes into the brain at known distances in front of , to one side of , and below one of these landmarks and guarantee to get it into a selected subcortical area . |
| 18 | The information systems will access data from the database and alm to transform it into information which the organisation can use . |
| 19 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 20 | Some mothers assume beauty in their daughters , and continue to believe it to be there , in defiance , often enough , of the facts , but Mrs Maugham was not one of these mothers . |
| 21 | Pipe some icing down one short side of the hutch door and use to secure it to the hutch . |
| 22 | Had well he said , Just get on with it and keep pushing it up the wall , just keep pushing it up the wall , just come back . |
| 23 | At last , in a fit of anger , he gave John permission to invade the duchy and try to take it by force . |
| 24 | The vendor 's and the purchaser 's accountants were then to review the sales figure and try to agree it with each other : and , if they disagreed , which they did , a third accountant was to determine the figure . |
| 25 | Well also just my experience , my own experience with the developments of and the evolution of the policies in Kuwait coming at working at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research , there were many erm studies conducted at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the other institute , The Social erm Political Institute , and they were the main of that was the probe through all these policies and through these institutions we have in Kuwait and try to improve it to a standard that the Kuwaiti people and the neighbouring country can benefit from at that . |
| 26 | When we take a tuck or slip stitch card and try knitting it with a changes of colour , we do n't usually know what the result will be . |
| 27 | One dog may then try to get between the herd and the straggler , and try to drive it towards the rest of the pack . |
| 28 | ‘ It is only if you pretend and try to sweep it under the carpet that you get a bigoted response , ’ Mr Purton added after the vote . |
| 29 | I had decided that I should take control of the aeroplane and try to fly it to England . |
| 30 | Suppose you shoot a marble and try to get it across a hump in the ground . |