Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers .
2 John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches .
3 When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob .
4 Still tied together with the strands of wool we moved towards the fence intending to drape it on the wire .
5 When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills .
6 Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies .
7 Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong .
8 Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ .
9 This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) .
10 Some shops have taken it off the shelves .
11 This interest only loan ties the profits from a unit trust savings plan to repay it at the end of term .
12 Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale .
13 But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds .
14 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 .
15 However , the museum plans to display it in the spring in the Egyptian galleries .
16 Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) .
17 When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year .
18 They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess .
19 The IAC held a press conference to trumpet their document and announced that every international athlete had signed it with the exceptions of Steve and me .
20 Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo .
21 Your shopping 's transferred it to the pantry .
22 It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street .
23 Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term .
24 You need a bit of luck in these games and while England have had it over the years , Wales have n't .
25 Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom .
26 This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up .
27 Daddy has to leave it at the garage .
28 The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library .
29 Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight .
30 Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble .
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