Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 2 | As Guthrie foresaw and wrote to me after attending an early performance : I feel confident that Gloriana will survive and be considered a great work … that disastrous miscalculation of opening it to an audience and on an occasion that required an all-star Iolanthe will set it back twenty years . |
| 3 | He wo n't need it for a bit if this weather goes on . |
| 4 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 5 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 6 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 7 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 8 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 9 | The ‘ industrialization ’ of the press ( see also pp. 67 — 78 ) transformed it into a commodity and an industrial product . |
| 10 | Make this Thinking Day card and send it to a Rainbow or Brownie friend . |
| 11 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 12 | Ellen caught it in a towel and put it out and went back to sleep . |
| 13 | He swung the metal bucket he was carrying in an arc and crashed it against a wall and he stood shaking with horror at himself . |
| 14 | A text , says Furman , quoting the French semiotician Roland Barthes , is a reading of a text : a reader , like a musician faced with a score , appropriates it in a way that is meaningful . |
| 15 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 16 | grab it in a pile and chuck it on there ! |
| 17 | Already I 've heard aghast whispers about the details of the Milwaukee cannibal : ‘ Do you know , ’ they hiss in your ear , ‘ he cut out one chap 's bicep , fried it on a griddle and ate it for his breakfast ? ’ |
| 18 | The 1865 Salon did exhibit Manet 's Olympia but quickly moved it to a place that made viewing almost impossible for the public . |
| 19 | If that does n't work , look again at the word , and say it in a way that will remind you of how it is spelled : say Wed-nes-day ; clim-bed , and pronounce the bits separately ; but remember how the word really sounds . |
| 20 | Exposed rafters , wall-to-wall pine panelling and the extensive use of beech and oak endow it with a warmth that is too often absent from modern architecture . |
| 21 | I bumped it against a door-frame when the earthquake started this morning and I lost my balance . ’ |
| 22 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't describe it as an assault but it was certainly reckless and dangerous play . |
| 24 | While writing this article , I have realised that it is actually a very general problem-solving technique , of which there are many other instances in mathematics and science : If you can not do a problem , transform it to a problem that you can do and then transform the answer back to reach the solution to the original problem . |
| 25 | One fire engine was damaged as crews used it as a barrier while they tried to extinguish the fire in the building 's upper floor and roof . |
| 26 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 27 | He tried it with a pig but the pig just pissed everywhere , he was n't having it . ’ |
| 28 | Our only nod towards the obvious is a visit to the Jewish cemetery , which Peta described in her diary as ‘ Lovely , huge old trees cover the whole of the cemetery and people write a wish on some paper and place it under a rock or one of the stones . |
| 29 | Just place it in an envelope and send it to the FREEPOST address provided . |
| 30 | You preserve it in a tin or bottle till you want it . |