Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 2 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 3 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 4 | All of these methods of teaching are based on the understanding that , in addition to being given information , young people need the opportunity to discover it for themselves . |
| 5 | I 'm just not persuaded Marcus has it in him to be at that level of intensity ’ |
| 6 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |
| 7 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 8 | No , my mummy read it to me . |
| 9 | It was in 1902 , it was ; a man named Plumb got it for me . |
| 10 | For some reason the barman got it into his head that I was the boss of your TV station . |
| 11 | ‘ Edward got it for me . ’ |
| 12 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 13 | Woolley stopped it with his fork . |
| 14 | I even got Ken to try it on us . |
| 15 | Well it was newish but er I mean one of the couriers mentioned it to us and I said well I du n no whether you want to pass the information on , whether you know , maybe you do n't . |
| 16 | Some scientific ‘ wets ’ will not want to soil their hands with ‘ blood money ’ ; but in these days of financial stringency , every professor owes it to his department to get in there and pitch for Pentagon pennies . |
| 17 | But the fight did not prevent the fundamental beliefs in the nation and ‘ the historic integrity of the island of Ireland ’ , as nationalist parties described it in their New Ireland Forum ( 1983 — 4 : i. 28 ) , from remaining basic to the perceptions of both parties . |
| 18 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 19 | The authors put it to us that every individual has a comfortable , or ‘ setpoint ’ , weight , around which our bodies naturally fluctuate . |
| 20 | Let mummy give it to you . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 22 | The Countess forbade it in her will , knowing what the beginnings had been . |
| 23 | Why had n't Maisie seen it in her son ? |
| 24 | Once he has persuaded a certain colleague in the States to sell it to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Hookers owe it to themselves and their loved ones to refuse to play if crouch-touch pause-engage is n't being enforced ’ , he said . |
| 26 | The Committee called on industry , commerce , the education services , religious and statutory bodies , and voluntary organizations to aid it in its task . |
| 27 | We snap a toothpick and make a half-hearted attempt to stick it to our chin . |
| 28 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 29 | It was going to take Le Roux time to resolve the legal issues and to raise the £8 million , so to prevent the deal slipping away , he came up with what seemed like a clever wheeze at the time : Norton chairman Jimmy Tildesley would buy FUS personally , and ‘ warehouse ’ the company until Norton had the funds to buy it from him . |
| 30 | It was large and heavy , a weighty double handful , smoothed above by exposure , beneath its dappling of lichen and moss ; but when Cadfael turned it over it showed rough and pale , with some jagged edges that were tipped with a dark crust , not yet dried out . |