Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | One piece of evidence is the fact that people questioned about a text or asked to recall it , frequently fill in details which they were not actually given , but which a schema has provided for them . |
| 2 | Failing a test was defined as being seen or heard to carry it out incorrectly ( eg to say the time was twenty past nine when the watch indicated a quarter to four ) , or being unable to attempt it ( eg being unable to answer when asked to identify a particular coin ) . |
| 3 | The key question is whether the Government 's policy will lead to an increase in unemployment or tend to reduce it . |
| 4 | At the same time technology visibly followed demand , or sought to anticipate it . |
| 5 | Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it . |
| 6 | If the jurisdiction were mandatory and the House of Lords refused or failed to exercise it , then another issue under the Convention would arise , that of access to a tribunal . |
| 7 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 8 | ‘ It shall be the duty of any person who erects or installs any article for use at work in any premises where that article is to be used by persons at work to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used . ’ |
| 9 | Mm , apparently the guy that was driving it had overalls on , so he may have been a mechanic delivering it to somewhere or test driving it over there |
| 10 | 5 If you leave a message for someone else to phone the journalist back , check to see that they have not missed the message or forgotten to fulfil it . |
| 11 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 12 | However , it should prevent anyone from mismanaging the waste and may include details of the business or process producing it in addition to a description of the physical ( or chemical ) nature . |
| 13 | Always protect it with cloth if it needs a spanner or wrench to shift it . |
| 14 | Disseminators of " indecent " material which lacks the potency to corrupt are generally within the law so long as they do not despatch it by post , or seek to import it from overseas , or flaunt it openly in public places . |
| 15 | This puts a new burden on the credit user:the need to decide not to use a form of credit , or stop using it , instead of the need to decide to use it . |
| 16 | Erm , I think they 're quite good at saying stop smoking , or stop taking it but we do n't offer anything in it 's place . |
| 17 | New opportunities rarely fit the way the industry has always approached the market , defined it , or organized to serve it . |
| 18 | You will also need planning permission if you have to create a new access to your property from a classified road , and if you do , you 'll need the consent of the local highways authority to cross a footpath or verge to reach it . |
| 19 | Even the USA , which in the 1980s still seemed sufficiently vast and dominant to deal with its economic problems without taking any notice of anyone else , at the end of that decade became aware that it ‘ had ceded considerable control over its economy to foreign investors … ( who ) now hold the power to help keep the US economy growing , or to help plunge it into recession ’ ( The Wall Street Journal , December 5 , 1988 , p1 ) . |
| 20 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 21 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | Unfortunately nonsense remains , however many people accept or pretend to accept it ; and it has a nasty habit of exploding in a nation 's face with effects which can be as devastating as those of a nuclear weapon . |
| 23 | When the edging to the path is complete , the hardcore is rolled or vibrated to consolidate it and provide a firm base for the surface material . |
| 24 | Or try to use it , but it 's still |
| 25 | What can happen when the majority forget this , or try to deny it , can be seen today in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 27 | You almost never find all the symptoms of the case in a remedy picture and you will never find all the symptoms of a remedy in the disease picture of the case , so do not look for it or try to fit it all in . |
| 28 | Or try to read it . |
| 29 | The buyer has two courses open to him — he can live with the foxing or try to have it removed . |
| 30 | Government troops are digging deep defences at Asmara and there is no doubt that , should the peace talks fail , the EPLF will resume fighting and attack it , or try to cut it off . |