Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the need for audience contact I found particularly important because if you get feedback from the audience looking them in the eye involving them then you 're able to know how your talk is progressing and whether you need to modify it in any way to be able to maintain the audience 's interest . |
| 2 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 3 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 4 | But anyway , he 's optimistic we 'll have sorted it by two thirty . |
| 5 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 6 | If you act a part properly you do n't act it at all ; you are it , and you make it — you . |
| 7 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 8 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 9 | Their elders make it upstairs in the flats , attended by small children — brothers and sisters who grow up in the Gorbals , Glasser says , to try it with each other . |
| 10 | Clearly to have the combination of an off bore sight capability for a a missile such as A S R A A M , the er advance short range air to air missile , the combination of the agility of the weapon and the flat platform together has been shown to be really needed , you ca n't have one without the other and that somebody who has only agility in the aircraft or agility in the in the weapon , will lose against somebody who has it in both . |
| 11 | The UK Committee on the Safety of Medicines regularly provides General Practitioners with questionnaires with which to inform it of any irregularities encountered in the use of new , but already licensed , drugs . |
| 12 | Wages were only pulled up slowly , implying weak pressure to scrap old plant and replace it with new . |
| 13 | The backfill in the quarry was varied , comprising areas of clay , weathered shale and domestic refuse and it was necessary to remove all of this material and replace it with suitable granular material . |
| 14 | Will my hon. Friend emphasise that Labour 's only policy on air pollution is to abolish nuclear power and replace it with coal-fired power — the net consequence of which could be only a massive increase in global warming ? |
| 15 | The embalmer helped them replace the planks , and then fussed about whether to sweep up and re-use the original natron , or replace it with fresh salt . |
| 16 | A tower wagon was waiting at the Lower Church Street corner to remove the junction in the overhead wires as soon as the last trolleybus had passed and replace it with plain wires leading only in the Mitcham direction . |
| 17 | As Daubney felt that the box reeked of death , Ted decided to bum Aubrey 's old armchair and replace it with another to remove the visible signs of the tragedy . |
| 18 | If that trust is breached , as the Whigs held that it had been by James II , the people have the right to resist the government and replace it with another . |
| 19 | ‘ We fuel cells have done our best You really put us to the test Exhausted now the charge is done Replace it with another one ’ |
| 20 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 21 | ‘ The goat does n't know it at first , but learns . |
| 22 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 23 | I do n't know it at all . |
| 24 | Hello do n't know it at all . |
| 25 | You wo n't know it in 2000 |
| 26 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 27 | If he knew the path blindfold after one month , how well would he know it after fourteen years ? |
| 28 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 29 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 30 | She unfolded the page of blue paper and focused on the letter instead , hardly understanding it at first reading . |