Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And you 'd say , right , and you 'd go the , after the baby was born you , you 'd go back again to what we call the nur nursing , nursing up and you 'd want the bowl again for the baby and you 'd say wh where 's the bowl and they 'd say , oh well I think it 's downstairs , we used it yesterday to make a pudding in . |
| 2 | As chairman Sir Peter Thompson explains in his statement , ‘ With the spotlight on corporate governance following the report of the Cadbury Committee , we have felt it right to make a statement on how the group complies with best practice in this area . ’ |
| 3 | By the end of 1929 the First report was published : slim and hastily written it yet established a frame of reference for the London region . |
| 4 | When we were asleep , it had ceased to matter , but when we ate it still remained a bore . |
| 5 | These young hooligans are stealing cigarettes and booze to sell it cheaply to feed a habit . |
| 6 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 7 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 8 | Then not having it rapidly became a sign of poverty . |
| 9 | He rejected the argument that keeping the facility for steers in Barnard Castle would be costly , saying it only involved a bit of paperwork by one of the officials at the mart . |
| 10 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 11 | Doing it immediately has a number of advantages : |
| 12 | Dickens denies it ever had a distribution deal to handle the X terminals promised by the troubled Athenix Corporation ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 13 | Compared with the £1M plus that an equivalent Atex system would have cost it certainly seems a bargain . |
| 14 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |
| 15 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |
| 16 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 17 | They get you in individually , and sort of reveal embarrassing personal stories , and there 's , I mean it just becomes a battleground , your house for , for the weekend . |
| 18 | I do n't know , I just do n't know anyway I mean it only needs a yard do n't it ? |
| 19 | GATT rules make it hard to levy a tax on the estimated value of the virgin materials incorporated in an import . |
| 20 | ( Raising the pitch of a phrase creates heightened interest ; lowering it generally causes a fall-off in intensity and a decline in interest . ) |
| 21 | I think it just needs a bit of |
| 22 | General Motors Corp may need to sell a stake in Electronic Data Systems Corp in order to overcome a $14,000m worldwide pension obligation , industry analysts told Reuter : chief financial officer Richard Wagoner said the automaker plans to make a ‘ significant contribution ’ into its pension fund this year and next year , and over the next six or seven years , hopes to eliminate its pension fund liability completely ; analysts say it could raise almost $5,000m by selling a 25% stake in the computer services giant , and Lehman Brothers automotive analyst Joseph Phillippi said he expects it either to sell a stake or return to the equity markets ; officials from both the General and British Telecommunications Plc say that any deal for the UK phone giant to buy a stake in EDS is far from certain . |
| 23 | To get rid of mildew wash your tent in warm water and dry it thoroughly using a proofer with a mildew inhibiter . |
| 24 | It seems dat dose who hav it continually live a lie . |
| 25 | How it happened we do n't know but the flight-recorder said it only took a couple of minutes and the navigator confirmed this . |
| 26 | Does it just become a disguise for who you really are ? |
| 27 | If people are being rescued from torture , from execution , does it really matter a damn ? ’ |
| 28 | If he is , does it really make a difference that he gives the note or cheque promptly on receiving the first demand for payment ? |
| 29 | We shall miss his humour , his smile , his sometimes quite brilliant prose and always remember that if the name was mentioned it always brought a smile , and that is what we shall remember . |
| 30 | We 've got to find a way to make it OK to buy a Buick . ’ |