Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy .
2 if we if we get it off the ground at all it may be we 'd want to carry it over till the Autumn and start the new season with it .
3 I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval .
4 The talk was recorded by Russell Mulford and we intend to write it up for the museum .
5 Agrees to write it off for me .
6 The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly .
7 Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council .
8 There can be emergency situations , for instance if your dog cuts its paw or is bitten by a poisonous snake , when you will need to carry it back to the vehicle or home .
9 If in addition we have been brought up in the tradition that to show feeling is a vulgar and lower-class way of behaving , we will seek to drain it out of any situations in which we are involved .
10 I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit .
11 ‘ I do n't need to spell it out to you , ’ she said scornfully , ‘ but I will .
12 Whether to you know sort of try and pick up the guys who are getting thrown out of Heathrow and make a long-term go of it or whether in the long term , em , they want to flog it off for gravel and you know mining it for gravel and sending it for houses and you know , that sort of thing .
13 ‘ He had a terrible problem which he could n't talk about but I want to sort it out for him . ’
14 King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain .
15 I tried to clean it out with a trolley .
16 Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work .
17 Mr MacConachie took over Sherwoods 12 years ago and has built it up from a 34-man , £25m. business , to one which now employs 125 .
18 There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear .
19 My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between .
20 Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one
21 When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology .
22 Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter .
23 ‘ But I 'll think I 'll just need to talk it over with a few people before we run it though . ’
24 They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great .
25 You assumed I would know to pick it up to like that and I grabbed it like that .
26 finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup …
27 None of the movements is less than very well done , but I do miss the blazing splendour of this conductor 's finest Bruckner with his old orchestra , none of which , alas , has made it on to CD .
28 She tried to cover it up with a laugh .
29 All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe .
30 I mean , if the bandits on the way here were anything to go by ( ‘ here' , if you want to look it up in your schoolgirl atlas , is somewhere near the Mocapra ) why should the Indians keep their word ?
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