Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 2 | Then you can concentrate on using it to good effect . |
| 3 | You turned round and said , do it in that one , so I 'm doing it in that one , then you changed to doing it in that one . |
| 4 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 5 | He patented in 1870 a wheeled ‘ apparatus for affording protection from bullets and other missiles ’ , but did not succeed in selling it to any of Europe 's warring armies . |
| 6 | We should closely look at why this flopped before suggesting it for next year as another failure would be demoralising . |
| 7 | Shooting a known man-eater used always to be done by attracting it to fresh meat , until it was discovered that a ripe durian is a much stronger lure . |
| 8 | Quality and efficiency in grain distilling will be secured by concentrating it in two locations , at Leven and Glasgow , and investment in malt whisky production will focus on 27 strategically important distilleries . |
| 9 | ‘ Yer ai n't finkin' o' chuckin' it fer that 'are-brained scheme o' Billy 's , are yer , Danny ? ’ his mother asked . |
| 10 | A large amount of the unwanted paint was reused by donating it to local community groups in Leeds . |
| 11 | 12.1 Any notice , document or request falling to be given or served under this Agreement may be given or served by sending it by registered post or certified mail , postage pre-paid , or by tested telex or facsimile transmission to : in the case of |
| 12 | Furthermore , plants utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that animals eject , and animals Bean yet more energy from the environment by utilizing the oxygen that plants eject by converting it into new combinations of chemicals . |
| 13 | The fact that it is a salamander can be experimentally demonstrated by feeding it with thyroid extract . |
| 14 | She pushed the thought away , terrified of damaging it by careless anticipation . |
| 15 | The pressure on computer manufacturers to provide for the proper disposal of used computer equipment , which goes beyond dumping it into approved landfills , continues to build from both within and without the industry . |
| 16 | She scrubbed the old lino floor until it revealed a pleasant geometric pattern of tan , brown and yellow diamonds ; poured bleach , then caustic soda , and then her own physical energy into the stained hideous bath , succeeding in restoring it in several places to snowy whiteness . |
| 17 | As New Zealanders sifted through the ashes of their World Cup defeat they were beginning to realise that after forming a recipe with which to win the Cup in 1987 they just as surely set up a system which would lead to losing it in 1991 . |
| 18 | We can split domestic labour 50–50 , but I 'm the one who 's going to feel defined by doing it at all . |
| 19 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 20 | Here , in the 103/4 , a much more extended frequency range is reproduced by supplementing it with one of KEF 's other major innovations , the coupled-cavity woofer system . |
| 21 | I was thinking of limiting it to 12 . |
| 22 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 23 | Cane syrup is a light treacle , first made in the days of the plantations when sugar was refined by boiling it in huge , black , iron vats . |
| 24 | This means there may be traces of metal in it and caution is advised before using it in marine tanks . |
| 25 | Yeltsin could help by ridding it of bureaucratic incubuses . |
| 26 | France wanted to cancel Argentina 's tour this year , eventually compromising by reducing it to three matches only because the Argentine RU said ‘ If we ca n't come to France , you ca n't come here ’ . |
| 27 | The diagnostic yield at laparotomy can be improved by combining it with preoperative or peroperative angiography to identify the bleeding segment of bowel and with on table endoscopy to find the lesion . |
| 28 | The dependency structure representing the reading was converted into a network form , and enriched by conflating it with definitional information associated with the word senses it contained . |