Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 2 | He tried the same with Flora but she only told him to save it for his interview with Dr Mackintosh that morning . |
| 3 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 4 | The director , Peter Wood , made Orton — who had personally requested him to direct it — do the rewrites . |
| 5 | So get me to do it , it 's only |
| 6 | Ya so that if the goes up to thirty thousand the reserve might be large enough to give it to sell it for that price . |
| 7 | I only ask you to do it because I know you 'll do it properly . " |
| 8 | And if he was engaged on some scheme of his own , she had better leave him to pursue it without interference . |
| 9 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 10 | ’ You can not teach a man anything , you can only help him to find it within himself . |
| 11 | ‘ I think someone must have taken it and I can only ask them to bring it back to me , ’ said Mrs King , of Egglestone Way . |
| 12 | If , on the other hand , the golem is already working , then Haberup ( who may not this time be in a position to claim the patent rights ) has presumably done something to annoy it , and in this case ( 10 ) may be used in the sense of an answer to the question : ( 11 ) what did Haberup do to his golem ? |
| 13 | The fourth section of the screen was scanning a wrecked enemy orbital battle station that was tumbling slowly end over end , locked together with the ruptured Imperial cruiser which had finally rammed it to neutralise it . |
| 14 | ‘ He just asked me to do it , and I felt like playing live again to keep my chops up . |
| 15 | It just needs you to sign it . |
| 16 | so there you , you get on the accounts you get a , a er , apparently , income er extension of the scheme budget by nearly four thousand pounds , three , eight , then you go back with what Lord was asking you about and I just want you to explain it if you can , if you ca n't tell me , as he drew your attention to surplus per audited account at August ninety nineteen one , a hundred and eight , eighty , so that , in fact the year ending nineteen ninety two , along these accounts we 're dealing with , in fact the expenditure of exceeded budget by nearly four thousand , the previous year er in nineteen ninety one er it had gone the other way that er |
| 17 | I just want you to leave it in . |
| 18 | ‘ I just want you to see it , ’ he said coolly . |
| 19 | ‘ My friend T. Poole ’ , Coleridge wrote , ‘ strenuously advised me to accept it . ’ |
| 20 | Just saying something to pass it over ! |
| 21 | But I never took it that seriously ; I just did it to do it . |
| 22 | He said nothing , merely walked away leaving them to push it open and then shut it after them , and on Philippa explaining to his departing back that she wanted to look for her earring and take back the vases and one or two things ‘ out of his way ’ , he said as ungraciously as he could ‘ I suppose so ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ But the council 's so embarrassed about that one that they 're just leaving them to put it right as quietly as they can . |
| 24 | Well you two can do it when you get back from the walk , just left me to do it |
| 25 | Nurse Willow had already warned her to put it in the crib . ’ |
| 26 | She just wanted her to take it . |
| 27 | ‘ They just wanted me to swallow it hook , line and sinker , ’ a disillusioned student said . |
| 28 | Or did you just ask him to do it ? |
| 29 | The people who like got you to do it get your name and address and everything ? |
| 30 | ( I hardly expected her to eat it . ) |