Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you feel strongly about this issue , then please vote on the form below and send it to the editorial offices to arrive by 18th May . |
| 3 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 4 | I have included it among the general books because Michael and Lise Wallach offer as total a critique as I have seen recently of the assumptions underlying most psychology . |
| 5 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 6 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 7 | Although the case for commitment accounting improving budgetary control is a good one , there is a real problem involved in adopting it in the financial accounts . |
| 8 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 9 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 10 | As you will have realised by now this is not a fish for the person with a small community tank , but as long as you are prepared to provide it with the correct conditions , it is perfectly feasible for the novice to keep and breed the fish successfully . |
| 11 | Thus you can describe it by the three numbers ( x1 , x2 , x3 ) |
| 12 | Please help us preserve it for the future generations . |
| 13 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 14 | Even stilled , the great pistons were ample evidence of the power it could unleash , driving it like the mighty wheels of a train . |
| 15 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 16 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 17 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 18 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 19 | You think I should show it in the future years ? |
| 20 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |
| 21 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 22 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 23 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 24 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 25 | If you put it on the right feet it 's clearly one of the best available . |
| 26 | There was n't time to edge away or even think as his mouth possessed her and his hands moved on her body , caressing it beneath the soft folds of her cotton top . |
| 27 | Efforts to strengthen and improve it in the last decades of the century had only moderate success . |
| 28 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 29 | Once an agreement has been registered in the register of restrictive agreements ( which is open to public inspection ) , the Director General may refer it to the Restrictive Practices Court for a decision on whether the restrictions it contains are contrary to the public interest . |
| 30 | Opportunities are provided to appraise academic theory and integrate it with the practical skills required of graduates in professional situations . |