Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb base] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 2 | I have the advantage , Meredith , and I intend to use it against you . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 4 | ‘ And I want to use it in the plot for my new novel , ’ Melissa continued . |
| 5 | Playing music is what I love — and I want to do it for as long as possible . ’ |
| 6 | When people are buying , another example of their purchasing power would be to say ‘ well , now I want this particular policy and I want to combine it with a power that 's available to me in that policy ’ . |
| 7 | And I want to hear it from you . |
| 8 | Her nose is all cold and wet and I want to wipe it for her , but I do n't . |
| 9 | ‘ I honestly believe I can score goals at any level and I plan to prove it in the next month . |
| 10 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 11 | My my er my the convincing I have to do in myself and and you have to do it for me is whether this is is the right platform for you . |
| 12 | And you have to do it in office hours as well . |
| 13 | ( Many floatplanes only have a handle on the end of the wire , and you have to hook it onto some convenient protrusion . ) |
| 14 | If your car breaks down and you have to leave it for help , try to stick to well-lit areas and do not accept a lift from anyone . |
| 15 | However , if you have a car tyre that has a slow puncture , and you have to take it to the garage every week to put air into it , it does n't mean that there is anything wrong with the pump : there must be something else wrong to make the tyre lose air . |
| 16 | ‘ In the end it 's all about the way you organise all your output and you have to relate it to satisfying the client , ’ Mulvie said . |
| 17 | Not one bum note was played and you have to hand it to the band for their professionalism . |
| 18 | If you know that your dog is about to be humanely destroyed and you plan to bury it at home , you may find it easier to prepare the grave beforehand . |
| 19 | Say you 've got a report about a small red car , and you want to compare it with all the other small red cars that have been reported in the area . |
| 20 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 21 | That is what we intend to do and we intend to do it on the basis of the criteria erm that we have set out . |
| 22 | For the rest of us , it seems commonplace and obvious that we should be able to think , imagine , perceive and remember in the ways that we do , and we tend to take it for granted that the rest of the world has the same sort of experience of everyday life that we do . |
| 23 | And we try to explain it by saying the craft is accelerating — it 's being pushed on by the rockets placed at that end of the craft . |
| 24 | Scott , it declared , ‘ wants a tight rein , and we hope to see it in Lord Palmerston 's hand ’ , but he should resign rather than undertake work in any other than that in which he has distinguished himself . |
| 25 | We are in negotiations with the local authority for planning permission , and we hope to obtain it for housing on some of that land . |
| 26 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 27 | ‘ Miss Honey gives us a little song about each word and we all sing it together and we learn to spell it in no time . |
| 28 | But it is with this group that antiracism can be most readily identified and we need to examine it on its own terms and in its relationship to other more easily identifiable class groupings . |
| 29 | We do not have that in Britain and we need to build it into any changes . |
| 30 | And they have to fit it into their diary . |