Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 Sir Antony Duff was moved to the directorship of MI5 , the Security Service , to clean it up after the Security Commission had criticized it as part of its investigation of the Bettaney affair . |
| 2 | So if we start pulling them about which is cos I said to her about the hall and if I do n't scrub it all off we 're gon na have to erm gon na have to do the hall and er I said we 've got to try to put it on because the walls are so ooh bitty you know what I mean ? |
| 3 | Being credulous in matters of sorcery , they began to put it about that the Frank doctor not only had the power of expelling demons but had dominion over them . |
| 4 | It 's safer to leave it in and the program is easier to read . |
| 5 | In fact , we 're wondering whether it 's going to be possible to keep it up but the trouble is it 's in an area where in the last ooh , over over recent years forty chapels have closed ! |
| 6 | However , the owners may win because they are more prepared to fight it out than the intruder ; when an owner beats a non-territorial intruder , he may win simply because he is stronger . |
| 7 | He had come up against sterner stuff , however , and an assistant chief constable was called in to mediate and eventually agreed to send it on after the author urged that the editor of the magazine be allowed to decide ( fieldnotes 1988 ) . |
| 8 | Rab felt to lick it off but the time , the place , was wrong ; a dump like this , it was hard to be anything , anyway romantic . |
| 9 | Lambert strained to force it back but the controls insisted on turning for home , and so he had to slip past the balloon , all plump and shining grey , soon to be on the ground . |
| 10 | While you need a stitch out of working position on each side of the cable it is not necessary to leave this stitch as a ladder if you prefer to knit it in after the cable is completed . |
| 11 | And it was getting dragged back and the engine was going like mad trying to push it along and the wind was pushing me back , and I was thinking am I going forwards or backward here ? |
| 12 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |