Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [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 This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level .
3 I can put fax stuff to Tracey and have it back the next day , but I 've got to physically fetch it , that is the only disadvantage or arrange to get it picked up .
4 Criticism ( like praise ) should be related to the particular action that has earned it ( 'I do n't like it when you swear' ) .
5 I have run ahead of chronology however and in particular of the First World War , which the peoples that had entered it as parts of the Empire ended as free-standing independent nations .
6 For some years Amnesty International has gazed with envy at those charities and voluntary organizations that have found it relatively easy to attract donations and sponsorship of events from companies .
7 Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade .
8 If a file is removed , an ‘ out ’ guide with the date and name of the person or department that has taken it should be inserted in its place .
9 has already crapped himself about the visit cause extra work of course but er the er however we should er revert maybe we 'll keep an eye on the schedule and things er but we we need to tie it up tight so we do n't get a cos I mean what 's being said now in the corridors of power is that the schedule is totally sales driven and it 's the sales department that 's put it together , I am only the administrator , I only I d I completely take my orders from the sales department quote unquote in front of everybody at the management meeting .
10 like well apparently the fella that 's done it , for years , and years , for years , for years has had a
11 The voice came distantly , accompanied by an echo that seemed to rob it of identity .
12 They blamed the crises that have affected it on the way in which EC members carried out their obligations , not on the ERM itself .
13 That word ‘ proposition ’ and the look of appraisal that had accompanied it , when she recalled them , still sent shivers through her .
14 complained how he says I 've got one of his and I had n't got it , it 's Linda that had got it .
15 The Doctor grabbed the manual locking wheel and began to spin it rapidly .
16 He took one hand off the wheel and tried to push it down .
17 The clanking of the machines was almost deafening , and Fenella wanted to clap her hands to her ears and try to shut it out .
18 For the DUP to embrace this accord and attempt to make it work would be for it to abandon its opposition to anything which presages a united Ireland .
19 Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ .
20 Is that , I thought that the card and Serve take it out for the doctors a few weeks back when he got your bronchitis and you were n't too well and erm , car picked him up and took him up there , then you get
21 When we take a tuck or slip stitch card and try knitting it with a changes of colour , we do n't usually know what the result will be .
22 In 1973 Tarasia and Mishra reported on a 10 year old boy who caught a fish in a pond and attempted to kill it by biting ; unfortunately the fish slipped inside his mouth .
23 It was madness to begin with , the only trouble is , it took forty years for the government to discover it 's own craziness and to begin to dismantle it , we are now reaping the legacy of that , of , of the , the accumulated folly of forty years is now bursting upon our cities .
24 Whatever the truth , it 's the all-mahogany Customs that have escaped the attentions of guitar-fakers , who often take a mid-'50s gold-top , strip the paint off , rout it for PAFs , refinish it sunburst and try to pass it off as a late-'50s Les Paul Standard .
25 There were gags , spoofs , send-ups , dumbshows , knockabout , culminating in the Rev Bain constructing an absurdly slack and springy tightrope across the ring and managing to cross it with the help of ( groan ) a cross at either end .
26 She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock .
27 He gave warning , however , that councils in England had to stop treating the review as some kind of beauty contest and begin to treat it seriously for what it was : an appraisal of the viable options for a new local government structure .
28 Raym. 742 , where before the revolution of 1688 the plaintiff had sentence from James II 's High Commissioners to pay a sum of money to the defendant and did pay it .
29 He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine .
30 He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind .
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