Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pressured Max Radl at Abwehr headquarters to plan it all behind the Admiral 's back . |
| 2 | NCR Corp says it plans to establish retail computer service centres in more than 50 US metropolitan areas as an alternative to on-site maintenance : the service centres will offer carry-in and mail-in hardware maintenance on a wide variety of desktop personal computers and peripherals , from NCR and third parties ; the centres will also market products including power line conditioners , upgrades and consumables , and NCR personal computers . |
| 3 | But the new ‘ consciousness of sin ’ as Beatrice Webb called it , still affected relatively few of the sinful classes . |
| 4 | Matthew Barbrooke restored Lowestoft 's lead when heading home Paul Mobbs 's cross , but they were denied their first win in eight matches when Gary Taylor made it 3–3 on 74 minutes . |
| 5 | It had been the right advice — Colonel Windsor knew it was — and Tubby had promised to take it . |
| 6 | Colonel Windsor refilled it , and Tubby took a large swallow before gathering himself together to reply . |
| 7 | Taking it , Mike hit the post , but a hovering Patrick Lombard slammed it in . |
| 8 | Saints boss Ian Branfoot made it a double raid on London when he also signed Chelsea 's Dutch defender Ken Monkou for a similar figure . |
| 9 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 10 | Like CD-I , the system plugs directly into a television receiver and the CDTV user operates it with a remote , infra-red handset . |
| 11 | The route was again F7c and again Ian Vickers flashed it , this time accompanied by Scotland 's Stuart Cameron and a strong French contingent . |
| 12 | The Can Crusher King wants it . |
| 13 | Superb 3-D and a Dave Whittaker soundtrack make it a real high-flyer . |
| 14 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 15 | Or , as Bernard Mandeville put it , in his usual ambivalent , ironic manner : " it is manifest , that in a Free Nation , where Slaves are not allowed of , the surest wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor … " |
| 16 | Lord Justice McCowan said it was impossible to hold that the Home Secretary 's political judgment was one that no reasonable Home Secretary could hold . |
| 17 | SUNDERLAND ambulanceman Ian Archbold played it by ear last night to win the North-East Championships 10,000 metres in convincing style at the Cleveland County Stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 19 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 20 | Colin Jelf says it was difficult at first but when he 'd passed his brother it was relativelty straightforward . |
| 21 | BIRDS do it , bees do it , even David Mellor in a Chelsea strip does it , let's do it — but five times a night ? |
| 22 | ‘ That library is in a right mess since Jim Kielthy took it over , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I do n't know how Ian Cromb got it , but he got this great big blimmin' pipe and went along to Dad and said ‘ How about a fill , Dad ? ’ . |
| 24 | Lord Justice Balcombe said it was unlikely that a pending court application by the mother , who is divorced from the children 's father , for access to her children would succeed . |
| 25 | Dr Rosalind Hursthouse puts it succinctly : ‘ Unmarried . |
| 26 | Successful collaboration during the first Whitehall study made it easier to agree on potentially difficult issues such as obtaining sickness absence records from the pay centres . |
| 27 | Morris then turned provider for Colin Irwin to make it 4–1 after 51 minutes . |
| 28 | Anne was approaching her thirteenth birthday and King Edward considered it time that she and his son Prince Richard , then ten years of age , became better acquainted . |
| 29 | Dr Roger Pertwee claims it is only a matter of time before marijuana moves from being regarded as a drug of abuse to a substance which can be used positively . |
| 30 | It was widely recognised as an important landmark and NME readers voted it their fourth best album of 1987 . |