Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 2 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 3 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 4 | ‘ He just asked me to do it , and I felt like playing live again to keep my chops up . |
| 5 | ‘ My friend T. Poole ’ , Coleridge wrote , ‘ strenuously advised me to accept it . ’ |
| 6 | But I never took it that seriously ; I just did it to do it . |
| 7 | Well you two can do it when you get back from the walk , just left me to do it |
| 8 | She just wanted her to take it . |
| 9 | ‘ They just wanted me to swallow it hook , line and sinker , ’ a disillusioned student said . |
| 10 | The people who like got you to do it get your name and address and everything ? |
| 11 | ( I hardly expected her to eat it . ) |
| 12 | He always told them to forget it because the School was falling down , it was subsiding , and one day would crumble and disappear : the trains had shaken it to pieces . |
| 13 | Mr Middleton came from behind and repeatedly whipped it to get it over the gate . |
| 14 | The Greeks sold wine to the Celts , but also taught them to produce it . |
| 15 | I really wanted her to wear it you know . |
| 16 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 17 | Luke was so infuriatingly indifferent that Maria almost told him to forget it . |
| 18 | Earlier had been the months in bed on traction , then being encased in plaster , and later figure-moulded ( embarrassing ! ) suit of plastic armour which at least allowed me to undo it and bath occasionally . |
| 19 | What right had I to think it might be easy ? |
| 20 | However , everyone else advised him to do it and it was probably the most catalystic thing he could have done at that period , although I had the feeling even if he did get a hit , it was something he could n't follow up because I knew the style of his writing . |
| 21 | No windows no doors no nothing er you know , completely gutted it to make it all , to renovate it and then ran out of money and then it just stood there completely empty . |
| 22 | Furthermore , he never asked me to write it in his place . |
| 23 | But you never told me to bring it down . |
| 24 | Her movements brisk and purposeful , she made herself some lunch , and actually forced herself to eat it . |