Example sentences of "be [to-vb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're to bring it in in a shovel . ’ |
| 2 | You follow me you were to keep it up as a habit and keep to the habit |
| 3 | But with a th a single wardrobe ironically you ca n't get them up the stairs because soon as you reach that step you 've got another step so if you were to lift it up to the next step it 'll hit the top of the d doorjamb so it wo n't go any further . |
| 4 | The other thing is to talk it over with your line manager , so that if you 've picked something up you want to implement yourself back at , in the workplace then |
| 5 | Well er if it 's a messy one , the first thing to do with it , is to split it up into little bits . |
| 6 | The obvious answer is to draw it back to the side away from the corner , but this can create an unbalanced appearance . |
| 7 | ‘ If you have pictures whose past is confused , or questioned , or whose title and ownership are a matter of dispute , the one way to settle this is to put it up for auction and see what happens . |
| 8 | So when the jacket of Elleke Bohemer 's book An Immaculate Figure ( Bloomsbury £15.99 ) claims it is ‘ a compelling and beautifully told parable about Africa , whiteness and beauty ’ the reader 's first reaction is to put it back on the shelf and move quickly on . |
| 9 | and they have that right to say well it 's in the national court we 're going to leave it there , erm , well so , so I think we would be reluctant to see it go to the commission erm Delimitis does say in the paragraph after what , after fifty three it says well your alternatives is to send it off to Luxembourg |
| 10 | All I want is to get it out of the flat , I said . |
| 11 | What we therefore need to do is to print it out in a way that will not only show the grid , but be big enough to follow easily whilst knitting . |
| 12 | Almost the whole problem of writing poetry is to bring it back to what you really feel , and that takes an awful lot of manoeuvring . |
| 13 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 14 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 15 | No , the sensible thing to do was to put it out of his mind and never refer to it again . |
| 16 | Once he 'd achieved erection the trick was to keep it up without coming but without losing rigidity . |
| 17 | Overwhelmingly , she did n't want to believe any of it had happened ; her instinct was to block it out of her mind , to pretend she 'd never seen Adam and Jake , much less a host of silver-helmed spear men … |