Example sentences of "it [coord] [verb] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Just as a Christian might reject Buddhism without ever studying it or getting to understand the meaning behind the words .
2 They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it .
3 Well , yeah er we we had a fair amount of chemical er troubles erm mainly spillages , bad packaging , erm a few accidents erm , and very little information in those early days erm there was a lot of nasty chemicals going around which erm very little information followed it and people were being quite seriously injured , firemen included , policemen and others were getting involved with these things , and I got myself involved quite a lot with the various bodies that deal with chemicals , like the Chemical Industry Association , and people of that kind , trying to make things a bit safer , and taking up cases where spillages had occurred and , and accidents had happened er to try to get to the bottom of it and try to improve the situation and er I was n't alone , most Chief Officers were working that way and certainly the London Fire Brigade did it , did no end of work with producing , what is now commonly known as the coding and , and a system of , of erm er marking containers of chemicals so that people can understand how to deal with them , so that that was quite an interesting area which , even now I 'm now retired I still have a little hand in that with er chemicals er in my few moments I have spare I , I get involved with that side , which I enjoy .
4 Although the draftsman may never see the lease again once it has been executed , others will have to live with it and try to manage the property according to its terms .
5 This woman was able to come to terms with her aggressive pattern by ‘ unscrambling ’ it and beginning to understand the roots of the problem .
6 When it was the right shape she blew on it , then closed her fist around it and began to massage the bull 's neck and shoulders and back and rump , tapping it hard and rhythmically with the knuckles of the clenched fist .
7 Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part .
8 WHEN CHARLES WEBB 'S novel The Graduate was first published in 1963 , Lawrence Turman , a 37-year-old independent producer with a couple of films to his name — The Young Doctors and I Could Go On Singing — read it , liked it and managed to acquire the rights in 1964 for $20,000 from the ingenuous author .
9 The Government stopped it and pledged to save the mountain .
10 Miss Crawford would probably stand a much better chance of becoming an actress if she stopped talking about it and started to do the necessary work to bring about her ambition .
11 They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists .
12 ‘ He was pushing a pram with nothing in it and wanted to cross the road , ’ he recalled .
13 Ron Scriven , a spokesman for the Police Federation which represents police officers , said : ‘ If the Avon and Somerset report is forwarded to us we will study it and consider circulating the 43 forces in England and Wales with its findings .
14 We own it and plan to keep the exterior .
15 This concentrates on it but builds builds the platform on which other courses on advanced presentation skills and negotiation skills team presentation skills are all founded and so you 're able to er continue through er the courses .
16 Paddy quickly took command , but with most of their gear missing and two men so badly injured that they had to be left behind , there was nothing for it but to try to make the rendezvous with the LRDG .
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