Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes . |
| 2 | It also occurred to him that if he ever found a German plane as helpless as this , Woolley would require him to destroy it . |
| 3 | This leaves it in an appallingly weak PR position , but it is unavoidable , and appointing a DG would do nothing to improve it . |
| 4 | This leaves it in an appallingly weak PR position , but appointing a DG would do nothing to improve it . |
| 5 | True , the £1,000 belongs to the husband at law — there is no denying it ; but Equity will compel him to apply it for the wife 's benefit . |
| 6 | When you go arter a job like that , if you 're doing as fast as what the machine will take it to do it properly , you ca n't force it . |
| 7 | John Bartram was recommended : ‘ being a native of Pensilvania with a numerous family , the profits arising from gathering seeds would enable him to support it . |
| 8 | The trustee can not be sued for a dividend , but if he refused to pay a dividend , the court may order him to pay it together with , out of his own funds , interest at judgment rate and costs ( s 325(2) ) . |
| 9 | Our kitchen planning service will help you to get it right first time . |
| 10 | She had felt quite peculiar and quite , quite shocked ; how Lucinda could bring herself to do it was a complete mystery . |
| 11 | ‘ You may not care for it much just now , but Biff Thacker will teach you to like it . ’ |
| 12 | A small screw in the fact of the patch will help you to pull it down . |
| 13 | Francis Bacon predicted to Michael Wishart that Minton would invite him to share it , as Wishart was then living with relations in the country and sleeping occasionally on the sofa in Bacon 's studio . |
| 14 | At last she zipped open her sleeping-bag , slid the two packs of notes into it , and thought that only the nastiest luck would bring anyone to touch it , to find what she had . |
| 15 | ‘ Surely if it was thrown overboard there was no guarantee that it would finish up on shore where the Man could send someone to fetch it . |
| 16 | Through all of this there was a shadow falling across the conversation , and it was a while before Alina could bring herself to give it a name . |
| 17 | Paige held on to her temper , knowing her cousin would love her to lose it . |
| 18 | Everything I 've said about the training of Dawn might lead you to think it 's just a question of patience and keeping her weight at the right level , but there really is much more to it than that . |