Example sentences of "[vb -s] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 2 | Rumour has it The Orb play a different set every night . |
| 3 | It 's normally the person that needs it the most actually is n't it , but what else ? |
| 4 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 5 | Well it was like the two soldiers and the one person just holds it the other person just tried and knock the head off . |
| 6 | The Sports Council says it the best means of acquiring all-round fitness . |
| 7 | Keith Richardson says it the game showed a lot of encouragement for the cherry and whites … if anything Gloucester had the edge … and with a little more luck it could have gone their way … confidence is not quite there and Gloucester have to turn their pressure into points … |
| 8 | She says it the same sort of consistency as yogurt but it 's salty and it 's warm and it 's not very nice at all she said . |
| 9 | The city itself needs no introduction for its beauty , theatres , galleries and restaurants , pubs and annual Festivals , which assures it the reputation of a truly international city . |
| 10 | He regrets it the moment he says it . |
| 11 | ‘ As long as everybody else sees it the same way , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ But he 's done well and hopefully he now sees it the same as we do and we will see him on the bench in our next league game . ’ |
| 13 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 14 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 15 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 16 | The American company that makes the 810 , Happy Computing of California , calls it the ‘ Happy Chip ’ . |
| 17 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 18 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 20 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 21 | He denies that there is a single professional-managerial class ( or as he calls it the service class ) , but instead he sees it as being split in two . |
| 22 | He calls it the ‘ varsity spirit . |
| 23 | He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett . |
| 24 | Walzer calls it the ‘ problem of citizenship ’ and he expresses deep doubts that the ideal of participatory active citizenship can be realised . |
| 25 | Winston calls it the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , you know — although we have no riffraff , naturally . |
| 26 | Cawthorne calls it the Exhilarator . |
| 27 | Sovereignty over the strategically important peninsula of Gibraltar was granted under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht to the United Kingdom , which accords it the status of a Crown Colony ; UK sovereignty is disputed by Spain . |
| 28 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 29 | First it denies it the right to impose certain obligations , denies that some laws if enacted will be binding . |
| 30 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |