Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section by section it was being revised in the commissions and then approved during the general congregations — despite last-minute attempts to modify it to contain an explicit condemnation of communism . |
| 2 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 3 | Whether you use a shell to hide from the C : > prompt or as a useful tool , you will probably want to customise it to suit your system and personal preferences . |
| 4 | Apply gentle pressure to the dog 's hindquarters to encourage it to sit . |
| 5 | Later that year McNamara pressed for a conventional build-up by all the members of Nato so that a Warsaw Pact attack in the heart of Europe could be resisted long enough ( without recourse to nuclear weapons ) to persuade the USSR of the gravity of the situation and to encourage it to negotiate . |
| 6 | At first the dog may only sniff at them but you should soon be able to encourage it to play with them . |
| 7 | Wherever you are out with your dog try to encourage it to defecate in a place where you can clean up easily afterwards . |
| 8 | When you are in a situation where you have to clean up after your dog it is advisable to encourage it to defecate on a surface which will make the task easier . |
| 9 | It may be possible to encourage it to stay in one area by fitting a spotlight of the mercury vapour variety . |
| 10 | BRITISH Aerospace has agreed terms for repaying more than £40m in ‘ sweeteners ’ offered by the Government to encourage it to buy the Rover car company in 1988 , it has been announced . |
| 11 | Because of his considerable talent as a storyteller , Chongo was able to entertain his audience and the same time to encourage it to think about moral problems , sometimes in a new and challenging way . |
| 12 | Mr Middleton is said to have whipped the animal several times to encourage it to climb over . |
| 13 | Yes , she does n't know how to work it to begin with but she |
| 14 | I had to retrieve it to write this and they are lining up already for its release . |
| 15 | If your dog shows signs of behaving in this fashion then you will need to train it to ignore people who come close to the car . |
| 16 | And again you see , er it 's personal choice in retirement and you 've got to choose it to suit your , you . |
| 17 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 18 | I was dying to open it to see what noise it made but |
| 19 | But the inward drift slows slightly as the extra dissipative losses are more than compensated for by the energy and angular momentum which the bar pumps in at this point — recall that the bar is here going around faster than the gas , so it has a tendency to spin the gas up as well as a tendency to cause it to radiate vigorously . |
| 20 | The accumulation on the ridges and swells is aided by the presence there of seaweed or flotsam , which tends to hinder the flow of the tide and to cause it to deposit the material it is carrying . |
| 21 | This occurs quite frequently in simple , non-biological systems and there is no question of any additional controlling substance or biological mechanism being needed to cause it to happen . |
| 22 | One of its major effects on our planet was to cause it to flip ‘ upside-down ’ on its axis . |
| 23 | Again , wait a few moments before walking towards the dog , assuming it does stay , so as not to cause it to bound off . |
| 24 | A technique whereby a thin skin of silver was rolled under pressure and heat to cause it to fuse onto a copper sheet base . |
| 25 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 26 | As we see , the most important effect of moisture on wood is to cause it to swell . |
| 27 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |
| 28 | Whichever wa it does n't matter if it 's really daft if you can think of some way yourself to remember it to remember that kitten has got a K and cat has got a starts with a C. |
| 29 | It is better not to colour it to match the bones , as the natural while clearly shows future workers what is false . |
| 30 | The er need to widen it to include er a washing-over argument does n't arise . |