Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [prep] the [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 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 3 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The little waves ‘ strike ’ the shore , the high part of an advancing wave is a ‘ hump ’ ; looking to another portion of creation , it would surely be better , but impossible , just to ‘ observe ’ the behaviour of migrating starlings than to try to understand it through the conflicting ‘ explanations ’ that have been proposed for it . |
| 11 | He wants to expose it before the whole world , but he needs your help . ’ |
| 12 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 13 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 14 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 15 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 16 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 17 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 18 | However , the sheer convenience of the compact disc , and its ease of access , has established it as the prime carrier for prerecorded music in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | Only those who have shown the resolve to defend the freedom of the West can be trusted to safeguard it in the challenging , turbulent and unpredictable times that lie ahead . ’ |
| 20 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 21 | put it in the vice , I mean put it in the vice whether , whether it just pull the head off I do n't know but it came out |
| 22 | no certificate of any kind has been received , even though every reasonable effort has been made to obtain it through the competent authorities of the State addressed . |
| 23 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've decided to give it to the Royal Horticultural Society as an eastern centre . |
| 26 | I see let take it from the other end , why did you have to take the insertion of the contingency fund of the estimates |
| 27 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 28 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 29 | But every time we came up with something we never seemed to get it beyond the initial idea , and then suddenly someone else would come out with it ! |
| 30 | If the Panel is satisfied that certain information requested at a full Panel hearing is commercially confidential ( such that it would be damaging to reveal it to the other party ) then it may permit the first party to be heard alone . |