Example sentences of "[vb base] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admits that he wants to continue fighting for the respect , and honour it endows his name . |
| 2 | Others suggest it represents a cynical attempt by politically-ailing premier Brian Mulroney to regain popularity ahead of the 1993 elections . |
| 3 | That is harder for an American president to do than most who suggest it realise ; whether they start in Waco or in Warsaw , the crises of the world sooner or later force their way onto the president 's desk . |
| 4 | It was felt at the time that the upward movement was out of line with the underlying trend and the latest figures analysed by Reward suggest it has in fact been short-lived . |
| 5 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 6 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 7 | Pity it plays like a dented tin can , really . |
| 8 | ‘ Pity it stares out at a row of other houses . ’ |
| 9 | Pity it backfired during the lucky draw at Edinburgh 's ritzy Prestonfield House Hotel recently . |
| 10 | At my first touch it shot away over my arm . |
| 11 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 12 | When I talked to members of the 1964 pie committee in 1986 it was still not certain if and when this pie would appear , but appear it did as the l988 ‘ bicentenary pie ’ . |
| 13 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 14 | Fill your answers on the coupon provided , send it to LIVE ADS by June 1 , and Roberta is your aunt . |
| 15 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 16 | Tell us on a postcard the Latin name of the domesticated Chinese silk moth and send it marked CL /Moth to the address on page 2 by 30 June . |
| 17 | You can redirect information from most programs which generate information ( such as DIR and TYPE ) and send it to file . |
| 18 | Knock , knock it looks like ! |
| 19 | The Albert Dock was constructed in 1881 ; extending from the Victoria Dock it completed a water channel across the whole of the southern promontory . |
| 20 | When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding . |
| 21 | The combination of the trailing link undercarriage and low-set wing and the ground-effect air cushion it creates enables almost every landing to be turned into a ‘ CFi 's greaser ’ . |
| 22 | " In any art festival it is difficult to have fee expression by the artists and expect it to appeal to all the different social groups . " |
| 23 | Even if recovery reduces the PSBR , few economists expect it to dip below £25 billion ( around 4% of GDP ) even after several years of growth . |
| 24 | East Germans expect it to scrap the security police wing while shifting its intelligence work to the interior ministry or a new agency . |
| 25 | However , analysts still expect it to manage a small improvement on 1991 's profits and dividend . |
| 26 | I expect it sounds silly to you . ’ |
| 27 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 28 | I expect it to taste mildly fishy or , perhaps , mildly gamey . |
| 29 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 30 | The operating philosophy set them by founder is as potent today as it was then : ‘ You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well . ’ |