Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hindus revere nature but never feel any need to marshal or mould it into a design of their own : a banyan tree will almost be encouraged to spread its drooping creepers into the middle of any village market , or to block any backwoods track . |
| 2 | And you 're supposed to try and link it with bigger groups of children , so if you say you say you 've got primary skills |
| 3 | And it 's much easier to try and control it on the clutch . |
| 4 | I think it 's a good time to spend in the garden to be honest , I mean you ca n't , you ca n't , it 's not really long enough to try and do it at weekends , not if he wants to move that garage back , it 'll probably take the best part of the week to sort that out |
| 5 | Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal . |
| 6 | With the weight of John 's head slowly reducing one leg to numbness , I decided to try and explain it to myself . |
| 7 | okay , do n't take too much , and that is to first make a literal translation and then , to try and put it into idiomatic English . |
| 8 | We got so fed up with the leaking roof that we decided to try and mend it with some tar . |
| 9 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 10 | erm Unfortunately when you 're short of money , you know , you have to try and get it from wherever you can and of course , in lots of cases , the supermarket chains have actually bailed out some football clubs , you know , by buying pieces of the car park etc . |
| 11 | Rabbit Software Corp , based in Malvern , Pennsylvania , is about to try and cut it in Europe — for the second time . |
| 12 | Cover the variations in speed , I 'm going to try and define it in pages rather than speed , because finding it difficult is speed , whereas if you got a sl a slow speaker there are longer pauses and hesitations . |
| 13 | I shall have to come and do it to your mother and see what she thinks . |
| 14 | We , we always , we were lucky we ha knew a man named he lived on and he was a butcher in his rights , his own rights you know , just like and , and but er , me dad 's brother or somebody knew him and , and he used to come and do it for us like , you know . |
| 15 | Er champion of champions we 've , I bought some prizes for the champion of champions , and food er just to go with the trophies er Keith again was our judge and erm knowing that he does n't willingly accept money , he wants to come and do it for nothing erm how many proposed that we buy him something a bottle to take with him , so we bought him a bottle of wine to take with him and er that was the three pound . |
| 16 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 17 | " They 've asked her to come and do it at their Christmas Club , " she said . |
| 18 | and he said of all the places along that road , they have to come and do it outside his |
| 19 | We got him to come and fix it before the first session . |
| 20 | Do you want to come and see it on mine ? |
| 21 | Should you ever want to organise a course on ‘ Cut & Sew ’ I can really recommend you have Pam to come and take it for you . |
| 22 | If you need parent support in the bad times then you need to encourage and reward it in those times when everything is going well . |
| 23 | Get to the point , tell people what they need to know and do it with as much style , clarity and substance as possible . |
| 24 | She watched the ants attack a small shrew , moving with one mind to overpower and strip it of its flesh . |
| 25 | The change-over day from one occupancy to the next was on a Saturday , when our admirable Jane Jones arrived to clean and prepare it for the next lot . |
| 26 | [ aside ] I 'll nip this bud by the time it begins to open and place it in my bosom for a year or two at least . |
| 27 | To do this , we used experimental criteria to characterise and distinguish it from arachidonic acid , prostaglandin , chollagen , thrombin , or adenosine diphosphate ( see Methods ) . |
| 28 | His mother told him she made things to sell and left it at that . |
| 29 | If her protest is effective , she becomes less frightened of her own greed and more able to own and express it for herself . |
| 30 | No doubt the judge , if he does not agree with the course proposed , is fully entitled to convey that to counsel and discuss it in the absence of the jury . |