Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] of [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 They argue that lots of imported scrap is , in fact , highly contaminated with heavy metals ; and that much ‘ recyclable ’ waste that crosses borders is going to importers with no means or intention of recycling it .
2 Or sort of put it , wha however really .
3 In more practical terms , does meaningful collection of software imply a functionally intact copy with the promise or potential of running it ?
4 No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " .
5 I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’
6 Of course , deciding how much information to obtain , given the cost in time and money of acquiring it , in itself demands the exercise of judgment .
7 In addition there are the more general , personal responsibilities to pupils and to colleagues , and the implicit expectations that they will keep up with their subject and methods of teaching it .
8 Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it .
9 You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now .
10 And sort of stop it
11 Cho choosing words in if if you think of a parallel with blacksmith , a blacksmith takes base metal and sort of bends it and shapes it to the appropriate shape .
12 We stick all my stuff in the suitcase and sort of squash it down so it all fits in .
13 or you 've got ta try and stop it , or you 've got ta get in there and and sort of organize it , take it on your shoulders , and I think this , this is a recognition that erm changes were taking place which were taking peasants beyond the straight moderate programme .
14 We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’
15 and sort of run it from there .
16 This is receiving the material , passing and sort of distribute it to the people within the group who are interested in writing letters .
17 The glass ball 's pretty warm now and I press it to my cheek and sort of roll it against my skin .
18 Well mm well you , you can but it 'll be nice to , it will be nice to have something , something , you know , kind of some sort of list we can , we can refer to and , and say oh yes oh great he 's handed that one in now and , and sort of knock it off because I know they do keep records in the office but , you know just , just something so , so we know where you are erm and it also kind of er will perhaps help concentrate the mind on what you need to get done erm so er
19 Now you can look at that and sort of chant it out to yourself and learn that as a table or learn it visually or vaguely remember some of it and fill in the gaps by going back , What happened when we tried when we dripped ac acid on a metal ?
20 I mean if it was working well then maybe you 'd stay an extra year and sort of finish it off but
21 No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever .
22 And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm .
23 You see him , cos he 's , Nick goes can I have a poster ? no , they 're only for erm the prettiest girl in Clapton and he shook my hand and sort of giving it yeah , before he drags me behind the counter !
24 Absolutely , says one in three women who took part in our Gallup survey to discover the stresses and strains of juggling it all and how women deal with them .
25 I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’
26 I may look into the cost , work involved and practicalities of doing it mainly electronically as well as whether it is worth starting it at this stage of the season .
27 Rather than bear the cost and inconvenience of having it put right , he would count the revolutions of the pedals and would dismount exactly in time to adjust the chain manually .
28 The NIO wants to know what has sparked the increase and ways of bringing it to an end , said the source .
29 First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it .
30 Health , emotional and physical , and ways of achieving it , have replaced arguments about religion and spiritual salvation .
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