Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many ageing people need to understand and accept the changes in their sexuality in order to continue enjoying it to the full . |
| 2 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 3 | Monism , with its rejection of the form-meaning dichotomy , was a tenet of the New Critics , who rejected the idea that a poem conveys a message , preferring to see it as an autonomous verbal artefact . |
| 4 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 5 | The superintendents … have at least stopped using it in a noisy and disagreeable way |
| 6 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 7 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 8 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 9 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 10 | This has committed it to an inevitable struggle with the Palestinians for control of policy on the Palestine question and , by extension , for control of Jordan itself . |
| 11 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 12 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 13 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 14 | Getting itself involved in access so deeply has turned it from a benign , vaguely representative organisation into one whose role is increasingly to police the activities of climbing and climbers . |
| 15 | I am talking about prisoners who do not want problems in serving their sentence ; they want to serve it in a civilised fashion , where that is possible in any prison regime . |
| 16 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 17 | Mr Joseph Bronson ( HMS Milne ) , of Helmington Terrace , Hunwick , is still waiting for his medal but is expected to receive it within the next few weeks . |
| 18 | If she has had it for a few years , there will be another bonus in that it will mature before the end of your mortgage term , saving thousands in extra interest payments . |
| 19 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 20 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 21 | She 's bitterley disappointed that the council has sold it to a local businessman who wants to use the premises to repair binoculars . |
| 22 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 23 | Luke 's voice was so low that she had to strain to hear it above the noisy chatter of the birds , the rustle of the breeze in the trees . |
| 24 | Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience . |
| 25 | CCW wants to manage it as a National Nature Reserve , but this is being blocked by the IDO claim . |
| 26 | Mr Kronenburg 's lawyers accepted that the defamation was accidental , four-figure damages were paid , and Chatto & Windus , having first withdrawn the book , has reissued it with an elaborate disclaimer slip . |
| 27 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 28 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 29 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 30 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |