Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unionist MP David Trimble has written to the Heritage Secretary seeking his help in persuading Channel 4 to go public and concede it was conned into broadcasting the highly controversial allegations in its Dispatches programme in 1991 . |
| 2 | G agrees the water looks good and says it 's a Class Two river , ’ except when it rains , when it gets all the run-off and also lots of foul water from the foul sewer overflow . |
| 3 | yeah so I chased off after it one of the little boxes had come loose and carted it back to the house I said your going to be a Christmas decoration whether you like it or not ! |
| 4 | He confessed that the monetary rewards are becoming obscene but feels it is worth risking ‘ burn-out ’ to secure his financial future . |
| 5 | People see it and they have this immediate compulsion to come close and mull it over . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | He 'd said that if I was asked about it , I should act surprised and say it was nothing to do with me . |
| 8 | He ate food that cost little and let it be known that he underwent severe penances and fasting . |
| 9 | If the foreman saw a tree in a channel , or a shoal forming , he did not worry whether it was doing any harm or not ; he played safe and had it out . |
| 10 | In the evenings , she ate alone and loved it : she felt curious looks coming her way . |
| 11 | I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show . |
| 12 | But the outflow is perennially full , white water pouring down to where the moor cleaves open and lets it fall to sea . |
| 13 | This is — I suppose we ca n't do other than let it happen . ’ |
| 14 | It is high time that the Minister went to see Anglo-United and told it to get its act together and stop polluting the environment . |
| 15 | I used to work for a record company as an office junior ages ago and they were always talking about music as being a packet of cornflakes : you just have to make it look right and make it so it 's easy to recognise and people will buy it . |
| 16 | Now Saint Marcus had to put all that lot together to make it look right and make it make sense , with hindsight , bringing all the important pieces together . |
| 17 | The Open Software Foundation will launch the next version of its Distributed Computing Environment , DCE 1.2 , at UniForum : it also confirmed version 1.2 of OSF/1 , released last month , is X/Open Co Ltd Portability Guide 4-compliant and says it plans to launch a full-featured Mach microkernel version of OSF/1 in first quarter 1994 . |
| 18 | Say I got mugged and keep it all . |
| 19 | Do the Labour Party want it banned to reduce smoking or to increase it ? |
| 20 | She worked hard and enjoyed it . |
| 21 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 22 | Se the room thermostat at a temperature which you find comfortable and leave it on that setting , allowing the thermostat to control the temperature of the room . |
| 23 | Then , without warning , she grabbed hard and pulled it up into the air so that everyone could see what she was doing . |
| 24 | Added to this , many of the firms do not even want to become big ; they started small and like it that way . |
| 25 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |
| 26 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 27 | The first attempt was abandoned in perfect weather when Davison fell ill and found it difficult to see . |
| 28 | I just do whatever feels natural and deliver it as sincerely as I can . ’ |
| 29 | He looked dishevelled and felt it . |
| 30 | But then they become curious and try it . |