Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should n't be bashed for putting it into a sale ; we help to bring it to a resolution by bringing out it into the open ’ . |
| 2 | Usually she got through cutting it up by fantasizing that she was Christian Barnard saving the life of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud . |
| 3 | ‘ Gran died , and left her house to me , so someone had to arrange about selling it . |
| 4 | Surely , after covering 11 wars , including Vietnam , he could be forgiven for calling it quits ? |
| 5 | And , if they have read the passage , they might well be forgiven for entering it as further evidence , if evidence were needed , in support of their view that evolutionary Socialism is anathema and its proponents the prime enemy . |
| 6 | Donard is the highest mountain in all of Ulster , and you could be forgiven for believing it to be the highest in the world when viewed from Newcastle . |
| 7 | Menaggio is a super lakeside resort that feels so untouristy that you could be forgiven for thinking it was just a typical Italian village . |
| 8 | Parents could be forgiven for thinking it 's another foreign language , the current wave of political bickering about education . |
| 9 | Please could you tell me something about this fish , such as how large will it get , so that I can prepare for rehousing it ? |
| 10 | It worries the lawyers , and the insurance company were always fussing about keeping it in a private house . |
| 11 | There is also the hereditary factor and cellulite does tend to run in families , so you may have your mother to thank for passing it on to you ! |
| 12 | ‘ If we were n't tied to this bit of the country , I 'd almost think about chucking it all in and heading off somewhere different — Canada , or Australia , or South Africa . ’ |
| 13 | The Badlands spirit is swelling — catch this wave now , but do n't think about doing it in a Fat Willys T-shirt . |
| 14 | When I said I 've got a wedding to pay for , they said to me , well can you think about cancelling it because it 's nonessential spending , and I said |
| 15 | She warned them the rock would tumble into the lake before preparations could be completed for dynamiting it . |
| 16 | You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’ |
| 17 | A man I do not wish to write for wants me to go to Vientiane , where virgins are $10 a go , and a woman I do wish to write for says it would never work because she is emotionally involved with me . |
| 18 | Yeah I do n't know about hanging it though . |
| 19 | rang bank up this morning , summat wrong somewhere and it 's supposed to be done by a computer , I do n't trust computers I do n't , I says the first I do n't know about having it back I should of said send it home send it to me address |
| 20 | She could almost feel the internal battle raging within her , and for a long moment could do nothing but gaze at the stage , torn between seeing it as a hostile no-man's-land and home . |
| 21 | Stella was torn between getting it right and being manhandled by Meredith . |
| 22 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 23 | I will return to this point later on , but I do not apologize for emphasizing it , because tragedies have occurred in the past . |
| 24 | I have been told it will be phased out by next year and motorists will be fined for using it . |
| 25 | nicking them and capture there pay slips and you get it , you get a little brass plaque on it saying captured by so and so and the date , cos obviously they get fined for loosing it and all that sort of stuff |
| 26 | This time I simply wrote him a decent-sized cheque and told him not to worry about repaying it . |
| 27 | From now on , she realised , her life would be forever divided into two separate halves — the time before her loss of memory and whatever was to come after recovering it . |
| 28 | Yet the book is rather difficult to read and the general reader may become discouraged after picking it up , despite the attraction of the illustrations and lay-out . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |
| 30 | So let's drive on the road taking a calculated risk , as opposed to sort of just driving along hoping it 's never gon na happen to you and I . |