Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 2 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 3 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 4 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 5 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 6 | A 6′ 4″ natural athlete from Eastbourne who spent the winter slumming it as a ski-guide on the slopes of Meribel , he completed the over when Jones limped out of Lancashire 's victory quest at Hove , then proceeded to halt the charge with a career-best 5 for 54 . |
| 7 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 8 | Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian . |
| 9 | Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian . |
| 10 | If that individual is not its mother but a human foster parent feeding it from a bottle , the lamb imprints on whoever held the bottle . |
| 11 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 12 | ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’ |
| 13 | With all the oscillation that was involved in that er shop stewards taking cases up , the shop stewards discussing it with the management , the management 's involvement , the management 's attitude becoming gradually , not weakened but er inured to the stewards ' fundamental logical claims on behalf of their members , made it easier you know , and progress was , was being noted that , and earnings were rising , earnings were rising . |
| 14 | So , rather than holding it in front of you as in the carve gybe , you deliberately lose the power from the rig by oversheeting ad leaning it towards the wave . |
| 15 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 16 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 17 | It was also a prison , and at the back of the palace is the beautiful Bridge of Sighs connecting it with the dark , damp cells . |
| 18 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 19 | My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile |
| 20 | Van Gelder had just left the bridge when another loudspeaker came to life , the repeated double buzzer identifying it as the radio-room . |
| 21 | Did n't you ever think it might be a shabby move lifting it off the album — a lot of people have mentioned this to me . |
| 22 | It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach . |
| 23 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 24 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 25 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 26 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 27 | Mr Fox said that original fittings , including Winston Churchill 's hotline and the phone booth housing it in the Admiral 's offices , will be installed early next year . |
| 28 | Seasons : At an altitude of 2,475′ ( 750m ) , this mountain crag faces NE and gets morning sunshine , with the top third of Titan 's Wall receiving it in the evening . |
| 29 | Right at the very beginning , in the prayer which arises from the memory of Christ 's anguish in the garden of Gethsemane when the narrator remembers " swattest blod for angwysche " , the shorter version identifies this sweat with that which marks the healing and turning point of human fever conflating it with the sweat of human anguish struggling against evil . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the announcement that the NSF would contest the free elections scheduled for April was greeted with consternation in many quarters , opponents depicting it as a ploy by communists to retain control of the country . |