Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kennedy might thus have decided that the question was not worth pursuing had it not been for British persistence and Foreign Office assessments which suggested that the Soviets themselves hoped that an agreement of some kind might result . |
| 2 | In moderate amounts , it is not troublesome , but for dyeing work it may be desirable to keep the concentration reasonably constant so as not to affect the rate of dyeing . |
| 3 | Land that is cultivated or grazed intensively near the croft is often referred to as inbye to distinguish it from common grazings and more distant fields . |
| 4 | It 's mad — even Mum 's after botering w' it now . ’ |
| 5 | They , therefore , introduced a third condition in which subjects were given the title of the passage after having read it . |
| 6 | After having had it ruin so much of their practice time , it seemed only fair that it should come to their aid when they needed it . |
| 7 | A wife who is naturally neat could not imagine somebody leaving dirty clothes strewn around the bedroom , especially after having discussed it . |
| 8 | It has nibbled at the problem , closing down its fertiliser business after failing to sell it . |
| 9 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 10 | ‘ You drove to Penzance , leaving home at about seven-thirty , you went to the film and started to drive back , but your van broke down at Badger 's Cross and after trying to start it and sheltering for some time , you walked home , arriving at about half-past two . ’ |
| 11 | Thus there may be no grounds for refusing to import it . |
| 12 | If we refuse to recognise it , while maintaining an obsession with constitutional policies , they will continue to set their own agenda — and judge us harshly for refusing to respect it . |
| 13 | I got to be careful about remembering to switch it off . |
| 14 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 15 | Before I show it to you , however , I want to know your reason for wanting to see it . ’ |
| 16 | If your machine does n't knit double jacquard , the garment is just as nice made from two layers of Fair Isle in fine wool , bound together by strips of knitting to make it totally reversible with different colours each side if you wish . |
| 17 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 18 | Have , have you had a problem of remembering to turn it on , remembering the batteries |
| 19 | However , if you are writing a program for a novice , the use of LET makes it more understandable . |
| 20 | Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it . |
| 21 | rang bank up this morning , summat wrong somewhere and it 's supposed to be done by a computer , I do n't trust computers I do n't , I says the first I do n't know about having it back I should of said send it home send it to me address |
| 22 | Ken kept his sheet music in the one he had constructed in the small back bedroom , so fear of splashing kept it on the whole unused . |
| 23 | I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot . |
| 24 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 25 | and we did n't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we 're trying to stop it with our finger . |
| 26 | Beales said : ‘ I was sure you would say that , but I 've taken the precaution of declining to give it to your men . |
| 27 | It would certainly give a new twist to the arms race ; indeed some of Reagan 's advisers appeared to be recommending SDI precisely because they thought the Soviet economy would collapse under the strain of attempting to emulate it . |
| 28 | Salvidge proposed to delete these insulting words but could not even find a seconder ; nine MPs were present , including Younger , Sanders and Neville Chamberlain , all of whom must have approved of the resolution or seen the futility of attempting to amend it . |
| 29 | People who can allow themselves to know about their envy at least give themselves a chance of attempting to handle it relatively wisely . |
| 30 | So , for the moment , if you want a higher resolution page printer it really is a case of going to find it rather than having it thrust at you . |