Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv prt] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best test of hay is to buy a bale before you buy a truck-load , and to try it out on your horse or horses . |
| 2 | And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract . |
| 3 | .. Try it out when you leave here , try it out in the meetings and the presentations that you have to make I encourage you to do that , to try it out in your day to day working and for those people who have either already been on this course or are coming on this course after you that you meet encourage them to do the same , because there 's nothing like encouragement and feedback from each other to be able to use these new ideas . |
| 4 | I 'd like you to write it up for me . |
| 5 | Do you want me to , to write it up for you |
| 6 | ‘ While you are waiting for God to write it down for you in capital letters , ’ Anna had shouted finally , exasperated out of all diplomacy , ‘ I shall decide for you both . |
| 7 | Erm I do n't think I have got any written down here for you to have a look so I 'll have to write it down for you erm stuff about Stanley knives . |
| 8 | Agrees to write it off for me . |
| 9 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 10 | He spoke hesitantly as though trying to work it out for himself . |
| 11 | DENNIS JENKIN EXPLAINS HOW YOU CAN USE YOUR SPREADSHEET TO WORK IT OUT FOR YOU . |
| 12 | So , sure , we do need rote-learning , we do need to be able to say ‘ Three times four is twelve ’ , we must n't have to work it out on our fingers . |
| 13 | Mother used to say he had to work it out of his system . |
| 14 | Just trying to work it out in my head he 'd be |
| 15 | So we 've drawn the graph and now we do n't have to keep calcul I mean this is easy it' probably easier to work it out in your head then to especially with these figures . |
| 16 | She untied the sleeves of her sweater and began to pull it on over her head , aware as she did so of a faint muffled sound behind her . |
| 17 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 18 | She took the garment , and struggled to pull it up over her hips . |
| 19 | On the bright side , the area is attracting sizeable foreign investment , particularly from Japanese and Korean companies , and has a strong core of business and local government leaders fighting to pull it up by its bootstraps . |
| 20 | His best friend was due for a bad let-down , and it was he who would have to spell it out for him . |
| 21 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 22 | Do I have to spell it out for you ? ’ |
| 23 | I 'm sure I do n't have to spell it out for you . ’ |
| 24 | Do I have to spell it out for you ? |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't think I need to spell it out to you , my frightened little virgin , ’ he said in a voice that was soft yet laden with scorn . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't need to spell it out to you , ’ she said scornfully , ‘ but I will . |
| 27 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 28 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 29 | But " thinking like a scientist " sooner or later involves greater autonomy , a bigger share of the decision-making : not simply discussing with the teacher and learning to guess from his facial expressions or other clues what the " right " answer might be , but actually wrestling unprompted with the methodology and materials in order to find it out for oneself . |
| 30 | Years later my mother could hardly wait for me to pass it on to her . |