Example sentences of "it [prep] [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He fetches half a tree in his dripping mouth and insists on me throwing it for him to fetch . |
| 3 | The outing was set up by her former Tory MP , the late Richard Holt , who also fixed it for her to take her first flight — an 80-minute trip over the Bay of Biscay in Concorde — when she was 109 . |
| 4 | Dangle it for her to play with . |
| 5 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |
| 6 | He tilted it for me to see . |
| 7 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 8 | Far be it for me to mention Huntingdon district council but that is one which |
| 9 | Is it for me to go ? |
| 10 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 11 | Only problem was , and far be it for me to dampen any thrashing of another team , was that Wimbledon were allowed to play for a good bit in the second half and could have come back . |
| 12 | ‘ Did n't you leave it for me to read ? ’ |
| 13 | That would be a good move — but far be it for me to advise the Prime Minister on that point . |
| 14 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 15 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 16 | This was the first time and it was pressure of work that we have n't done it for you to see it earlier , this is not normal so just forgive this one time and we need n't spend any more thought on it because next time it it going to be different and it always has been different . |
| 17 | How important is it for you to go home with a tan ? |
| 18 | Equally , how easy is it for you to conceive of another subject of experience , one who is not you ? |
| 19 | " But you said you wanted this letter to go off this morning , so I 've brought it for you to sign . " |
| 20 | I know it 's basically to suit me , but how easy is it for you to get down to Victoria ? ’ |
| 21 | Then I 'll try and fix it for you to have your roof-top ending . ’ |
| 22 | but I mean it 's only because the extra stuff 's in it for it to dissolve in . |
| 23 | But far be it for us to shed crocodile tears over the bruised egos of our male counterparts . |
| 24 | Omar Pound must know the full story , but rightly I think , though surely austerely , he has left it for us to piece together . |
| 25 | Well I would think the Council would be delighted to have those details in front of it for us to have a full discussion and to make it known but thank you Councillor for all those details . |
| 26 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 27 | ‘ Is it fer me to keep ? ’ |
| 28 | He would not have put it past her to make a kind of bargain on that basis . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd not put it past him to lock me up … ’ |
| 30 | She would not put it past him to use force . |