Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employee , either during or after employment was free to impart it to anyone — including his employer 's competitor . |
| 2 | I 'd been amazed that in London you could buy ready-made couscous in packets , and that the English used it in their cooking . |
| 3 | He peered across the tavern , watching a group of men busy baiting a relic-seller who claimed he had Aaron 's beard in a sack and was prepared to sell it to them for a few coins . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's was approached towards the end of 1988 , and , according to Llewellyn , ‘ We told the seller that we certainly would not be prepared to sell it for him unless it was clear that there were no existing legal claims to be made by any third parties against the picture . |
| 5 | The first is to find a timber merchant or cabinet maker who is prepared to machine it for you to the pattern you want — likely to be expensive . |
| 6 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 7 | Commenting on whether a cake had been promised to Miss Dodd , she said : ‘ We were prepared to give it to her as a donation but she cancelled the order . ’ |
| 8 | Just that they , they 're not willing to do it for nothing , and it 's going to cost you twenty pounds a time on top of the P A hire . |
| 9 | He never beat about the bush when something was annoying him , he was never afraid to give it to you straight , to say exactly what he thought . |
| 10 | He is just not willing to put it in his price book . |
| 11 | The writing was already on the wall for those willing to read it in his own country . |
| 12 | It 's spontaneous doing it off their own back . |
| 13 | I 'm sorry I 've actually asked that question and while we 're discussing it , unfortunately we can not do so , as soon as I actually get a figure and I 'm quite prepared to release it to you . |
| 14 | He said he would be prepared to place it for me , and he was as good as his word . |
| 15 | I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 per cent . |
| 16 | Should you still feel dissatisfied you may personally bring your grievance to the notice of Personnel Management Division or you are free to raise it with your staff association or trade union who may take action on your behalf . |
| 17 | Has anyone a friendly grocer or newsagent etc. who would be willing to display it in their window ? |
| 18 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 19 | Because she is not saying ‘ I love you ’ to one person , she is free to say it to everyone . |
| 20 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 21 | It 's almost impossible to catch it from your dentist ! ’ |
| 22 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 23 | Just so easy to do it to you now . |
| 24 | Embarrassment curled hotly through her as she remembered what she 'd read and she snatched up the case and marched towards the door , but it was n't that easy to push it from her mind , not when she remembered Luke Calder 's mockery . |
| 25 | The accused cashed it for him . |
| 26 | ‘ without lawful authority or reasonable excuse ’ The proof of this point is on the defence and they must prove on the balance of probabilities that the accused had it with him with lawful authority or reasonable excuse . |
| 27 | If ‘ made ’ or ‘ adapted ’ is used the prosecution need only prove that the accused had it with him . |
| 28 | They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person . |
| 29 | It was n't pleasant to hear it from her lips , but yes , he said , he was just another hireling . |
| 30 | Less discordant , but just as remote , is the recollection in 102 : ‘ Our love was new , and then but in the spring , /When I was wont to greet it with my lays . ’ |