Example sentences of "[prep] it and [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hank had no doubt that , sooner or later , old tabby-cats like the MacDonald woman would get wind of it and would give his mother hell about it . |
| 2 | The Head of Department then said that he considered that the criticism had been constructive , that he accepted most of it and would try out various changes . |
| 3 | so let's get rid of some of it and let's make the angle theta . |
| 4 | If I 'm going to spend several hundred pounds on an outfit , I make sure I get real value out of it and will wear it a lot . |
| 5 | It is a mistake to put in a clause that you know will not be enforceable in the hope that employees will be afraid of it and will not try to compete when they leave . |
| 6 | Lucille herself never used her title , but she knew Sharpe was perversely proud of it and must have informed the Prince of its existence . |
| 7 | Joan had thought of it and could understand Anne 's feelings . |
| 8 | Restlessly Leith moved over to the window , but while the view from her room was quite exquisite , she saw nothing of it and could see only Naylor 's furious face as he accused her of leading Travis on . |
| 9 | The second problem with knitting too many rows of tuck is that if a needle is n't knitting ( and , when tucking , it is n't ) it pulls up the knitting on the needles either side of it and can prevent them knitting off correctly . |
| 10 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 11 | But the Rastas felt that the language was the African people 's own , that they should be proud of it and should set about improving it " ( 1986a : 44 ) . |
| 12 | Flexibility on the Pakistani side was shown by the Pakistani Foreign Minister 's recognition of the Soviet Union 's ‘ legitimate interest in expecting that any Government in Kabul should be friendly towards it and should be mindful of its security interests ’ . |
| 13 | She becomes frightened of the foal or aggressive towards it and will not let it suckle . |
| 14 | So if you learn the words this way thinking well do I know a word that 's a bit like it and could I add a bit onto the end that 's another way another good way of learning cos you do n't have to learn class and classical and classic you just sort of learn one of them . |
| 15 | Occasionally this contrivance could overshadow the less congenial reality which lay behind it and could override the more mundane , everyday exploitation of work on the land , but this , given the conditions under which farm workers lived and worked , was only sporadically successful . |
| 16 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 17 | one get , yeah , one gets up behind it and can in the back I suppose , but they go after they , and then , you think as soon as you pull out , you 're gon na get all that , yeah , he 's gon na get all that , but they do n't do they ? |
| 18 | Anyone want to pick up the ball and run with it and would question whether it is considered necessary and does it give you sufficient guidance at strategic level ? |
| 19 | Nobody in his right mind would try to fill a bath with a hole in it and so , I reasoned in my simple way , let the poor soul get on with it and let's all have a bit of peace . |
| 20 | The semantic net does not have a particular linear version burnt into it and must distinguish different history subsections by giving them distinct names . |
| 21 | That 's why Max is totally into it and will go for it like a madman if he knows that the guys playing are good enough to get it . |
| 22 | I promise that I will look into it and can I , can report back to you if you wish me to when it comes out . |
| 23 | Please note that where an area is marked for cyclists ( as in Middle Meadow Walk ) pedestrians have not been physically excluded from it and may use it ; also children or dogs may run on to it unexpectedly . |
| 24 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 25 | Because Israel did not detonate a weapon prior to 1967 , but currently possesses nuclear weapons , it would be in violation of the treaty if it were a signatory to it and would be legally obliged to destroy its stockpile and to end its nuclear programme . |
| 26 | Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed . |
| 27 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 28 | If we can improve let's hom let's home in on it and let's improve it . |
| 29 | Teachers should be aware , particularly of that aspect , I think , because phonic method is very often used in schools , by which I mean that the teacher wil hold up a flash card , and on it would be a pair of letters , say , suppose for example sh the teacher will hold up a large card with sh on it and will say to the class ‘ this is shuss ’ and the children will all say shuss whenever this card is held up — that 's fine , but the dyslexic pupil may not be seeing sh in the same way that the other children are . |
| 30 | In the case of a transfer of registered land the plan is rarely drawn on it and must be signed by the buyer or by the buyer 's conveyancer . |