Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are training people to do it that way , to batter people down . ’ |
| 2 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 3 | So , er , we 're getting people saying it 's impossible to pay this even though they were asked if they could pay it at the the the time it was given sometime last July . |
| 4 | You 're expecting people to resent it so you hold back before they can get any ideas about hurting you . ’ |
| 5 | Free flow : dust your scales with flour when you 're weighing treacle to help it flow off a little more easily . |
| 6 | Twenty per cent of the crop is still in the ground and growers are having difficulty digging it out in the wet conditions … so it remains to be seen if the present glut will last . |
| 7 | ‘ But , damn it , I 'm paying Colin to do it ! ’ |
| 8 | I did n't feel it was sensible to er , get Monica going through that too many stages , it would seem to me it would better to agree the changes and then we 'd all agreed what the changes are going to be get Monica to do it , rather than go through lots of drafts , drafts with Monica . |
| 9 | I 'm having trouble picturing it . ’ |
| 10 | The contents of the discussion were not revealed but it can safely be assumed Border made it clear he felt Marsh , dropped along with Mark Waugh , should have been spared , not least because of his loyal service . |
| 11 | For a while , at least , I think we can offer them assurances that we are taking steps to locate it . |
| 12 | Oh , to protect market share , which means that you think if you stopped advertising less people would buy it , therefore your ads are making people buy it — thank you and good night . |
| 13 | We are making arrangements to delete it from existing policies . |
| 14 | People living near a former young offenders institution are fighting plans to turn it into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 15 | At the CNPF , France 's business and industry lobby , there are complaints that the government has been fudging figures to make it look as though targets have been met . |
| 16 | You were trusting people to pay it if you had a black book . |
| 17 | Masturbation — men were more turned-on watching women masturbate than women were watching men doing it . |
| 18 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 19 | The visitors were Arsenal and , while it still seems unfair to single out teams in this way , the intensity of attiude recorded by the referee 's hidden microphone made it easier to understand what happened last Saturday . |
| 20 | Actually , what you should have done is got Jo to carry it around with her cos she could have got some very interesting conversations . |
| 21 | Still , the album 's redeeming features made it worthwhile trekking through the odd patches of lacklustre mud . |
| 22 | Shaw 's infatuation with the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell , who was to play Eliza , clearly found its way into the script , giving Pygmalion a powerful undercurrent of sexuality , despite all the playwright 's blustering attempts to deny it . |
| 23 | It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident . |
| 24 | It is understood police believe it may have been an isolated incident . |
| 25 | and everyone 's saying to me , no you know , she 's kissing Pat Swayze it 's something that happened . |
| 26 | I am a pawn and bishop down after 12 moves , but have only half an eye on the game now , which seems to make me play better , or Sergei play worse , for he has pushed up his queen too far and is having trouble defending it . |
| 27 | The simplest way to feed grass is to allow livestock to eat it where it grows , green and fresh . |
| 28 | and the lift 's bisecting doors confirmed it . |
| 29 | He faced up to the notorious Chelsea Boot Boys with an electrified fence but was refused permission to switch it on . |
| 30 | He was having trouble playing it down , with a full-scale sex scandal to contend with . |