Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fennel can be bought as tea bags and one of these can be used instead of half a teaspoon and the bag left hanging in the tank for one day after using it to make the remedy . |
| 2 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 3 | Woosup Koh , managing director of IMS ( Scotland ) , paid tribute to the involvement of Locate in Scotland both in bringing the company to Scotland and in helping it to complete the deal in less than two months . |
| 4 | Most sections of the left were interested , not in stopping the war , but in using it to swing the balance of social power away from Britain 's traditional rulers . |
| 5 | It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment , and in believing it to undermine the opt-out . |
| 6 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |