Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [coord] [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 2 | Approaches that have tended to over-emphasise the cost aspects of RMI and to make it appear as a finance-driven system tend to alienate the service provider groups and often meet with resistance at clinician level . |
| 3 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 4 | Other ideas include mixing straw with sewage to make compost , which is being tried out at sewage works near Oxford and using it to make paper , which it was widely used for until the 40s . |
| 5 | The tacit threat of having their operating licences removed was required before they agreed to cooperate with GCCS and let it see their messages each day . |
| 6 | With Mark and Babur it comes up a lot . |
| 7 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 8 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 9 | The company retains major ambitions in China and says it wants to help the country create by the end of the century a network that would be over twice as big as the one operated by British Telecommunications Plc — China plans to raise the number of telephone lines to 100m nationwide by the year 2000 from just 25m now . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp has been banging the drum for its forthcoming Windows New Technology operating system in Europe and says it has won ‘ broad support ’ for it from ICL Plc , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG . |
| 11 | Brückner had bought the painted ceiling from Italy and had it fitted . |
| 12 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 13 | ( In Henry VIII 's reign , the great Dutch scholar Erasmus was given the benefice of Aldington in Kent and had it commuted for a pension of £20 , charged on the living . ) |
| 14 | Using a linking network P&W can typeset a prospectus in Edinburgh , have it approved in New York , print it in London and have it distributed in Europe with the whole process taking less than 24 hours . |
| 15 | I , I think it goes to Canonbury and think it goes to Bethnal Green . |
| 16 | He created several gardens on the Continent , including Villa Maryland and Villa Rosemary in the south of France ; but his crowning glory must be at Iford , where he has brought Italy to Wiltshire and set it tumbling down the hanger , in a series of steep paths , steps , and terraces where colonnades , cloisters , fountains and well-heads abound . |
| 17 | ‘ Hopefully we can take our rapport onto the pitch on Wednesday and make it work . ’ |
| 18 | Stirling went twice to Benina and found it deserted . |
| 19 | so she changed the Susan to , to Theresa and made it pits instead |