Example sentences of "[verb] it [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The government estimates that at least 10,000 people will be prohibited from political activity — such individuals will also be prevented from speaking or writing on controversial issues unless the council deems it part of their job . |
2 | The community planner was also aware that conflict probably did exist behind the prominence of what she perceived to be middle class agitation , but did not consider it part of her brief actively to encourage alliances that were not already formed . |
3 | Did it as they want it sort of you know ? |
4 | President Bush had made it part of his re-election campaign to attacked the alleged incompetence and corruption of the Democrat-controlled Congress , which he blamed for the shortcomings of the Republican administration . |
5 | ‘ I consider it part of my job to know everything about everybody , ’ Mandy muttered abstractedly . |
6 | Yeah , they 've had it excerpts of it on television have n't they ? |
7 | Charles of France might shrink from fomenting a direct war , but he would be glad to use every oblique weapon against the upstart king who had deposed his son-in-law , and sent his little widowed daughter back in clumsy state , but without her dowry , which had been fed of necessity into King Henry 's treasury to keep it solvent during his first year of kingship . |
8 | He watched it head towards him . |
9 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
10 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
11 | The point , however , we wish to make here is that , from whatever source the teachers are drawn , their work with adult students should be regarded as university work ; the Professor of English should make it part of his duties to keep in close touch with them , periodical meetings of the tutors and the Professor , for the interchange of ideas and the discussion of problems should be held — in short that the extension and tutorial classes should be regarded as an integral part of the English Department . |
12 | Besides , he would only make it grist to his mill . |
13 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
14 | TRANSDUCTION : Some bacterial viruses ( bacteriophages ) , after they have infected an E. coli cell , combine with some of their host 's DNA and make it part of themselves . |
15 | How can we enter into this happiness and make it part of our lives ? |
16 | It 's just a short walk from the Jorvik Centre , so make it part of your visit to historic York . |
17 | When you wash your hair make it part of your routine to gently massage your scalp using the soft pads of your finger tips in circular movements . |
18 | Not until she was quite grown up did it dawn on her that the questioner was asking about — or , rather , refuting — the possibility of any mother actually rejecting her child . |
19 | Well I might get it Sunday for you . |
20 | By the time Elizabeth arrived Lydia was prepared to welcome her , since any additional flavour must add something to the evening , which was like Betty 's meatless stock into which she kept putting more and more dried herbs and burned onion in an effort to make it taste of something . |
21 | He might be a dead loss but he 's still her husband and that makes it adultery in my book , and in the eyes of the Church . ’ |