Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Defence activities employ a third of France 's 270 000 researchers But the ministry 's bad image among many scientists has persuaded it to woo the science community more explicitly . |
| 2 | Staff , learning of some intimate aspect of a prisoner 's life , perhaps from seeing a file or overhearing a chaplain or social worker discuss confidential information , would be expected to use it to put the prisoner down . |
| 3 | The dire state of the property market has prompted it to slash the book value of its bricks and mortar investments by £138m to Pounds 700m . |
| 4 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 5 | I look forward to seeing the amendments that will be tabled by my right hon. Friend for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and others when they look in a measured way at the Bill and seek to amend it to provide the support for the prison service that is so desperately needed . |
| 6 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 7 | Fourth and finally , the social composition of the Council — which had a tendency to be more upper class than the Assembly , and to be drawn more from the traditionally , almost professionally political families — must have inclined it to play the master not the servant . |
| 8 | I have a strong presentiment that , had the opportunity arisen , Lord Mansfield would have seized it to establish the law in this form . |
| 9 | He asked why he had continued to use it to destroy the character of a witness after being warned that it was confidential . |
| 10 | But the people had done it to teach the man a lesson . ’ |
| 11 | Right away I had to leave it to answer the telephone . |
| 12 | I wish to use it to reinforce the message of the forthcoming Earth Summit — that we must develop our part of the world in a more sustainable way . |
| 13 | There are few people , I 'm very concerned for those people and we will be imposing conditions if members wish to approve it to protect the interests of the few people in close proximity , many of the objectors er they must be heard and their point of view is report in the committee papers but they do live at er a couple of miles from the site . |
| 14 | One of the people with the piano might have had a pencil between their teeth , but would probably have been annoyed if we had taken it to mean the pencil and said : |
| 15 | Autolatina claimed that a combination of the price freeze and the government decision to reduce tariffs on imported cars ( see below ) had forced it to make the decision . |
| 16 | Council leader Michael Carr said government restrictions had forced it to freeze the amount it gives to the bus companies . |
| 17 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 18 | His dilemma would have been similar , in some ways , to that which faced the coachman Jean Hornn when the latter finally came up to the town in the berline dormeuse and attempted to skirt it to avoid the encumbrances with which the road was choked ( see Part 1 ) . |