Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If we use the art of repetition and change , this small idea can then grow and help make all the music , or at least enough of it to generate a formal logic , a compelling emotional experience for those who listen . |
2 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
3 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
4 | " the true excellence of the English constitution [ is ] that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other . |
5 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |
6 | Even now , when it has in plate tectonics a unifying , fundamental theory , much of it remains an observational science , intuitive to the point of subjectivity . |
7 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
8 | Leave the groove of Primevil as soon as possible and stay within 6 metres of it to reach a poor belay at the foot of a groove in the first tier of the wall above the slab ( about 50m ) . |
9 | A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman . |
10 | But now , along the middle of it came an old woman pushing a hand-cart on which was a pile of rags . |
11 | A number of further points should be noted : ( 1 ) If the financial adviser is acting for a newly-formed bidder ( eg an " off-the-shelf " company ) , the standard of care required of it has a special dimension . |
12 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
13 | She moved towards it to take a better look , glad of the chance to withdraw a little from his disturbing presence . |
14 | It 's a big guitar , 16″ wide across the body and just over 4¾″ deep at the bottom bout , and with handsome-looking wood and satin-finished lacquer throughout it makes an immediate impression . |
15 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
16 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
17 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
18 | The tracks it left behind it bisected a faded trail of bootprints . |
19 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
20 | However , the maker does a good fret job and has included useful features like a compensated saddle , with a ‘ step ’ cut into the bridge behind it to ensure a good break angle for the strings and plenty of room for future saddle-height adjustment . |
21 | With it came a new sound — deep and frightening . |
22 | This objective was indeed achieved , but with it came a spectacular collapse in crude prices , which lasted from 1985 into the following year , when there were calls from the Gulf states for Britain to cut its North Sea output ‘ as part of a global effort between OPEC and non-OPEC exporters to restabilize the world oil market ’ . |
23 | With it came a sudden clarity of atmosphere , so that the trees and haystacks stood out in high relief , and the distant hills seemed to come nearer now that their outline was sharply etched on the horizon . |
24 | With it came an overwhelming desire to press herself closer . |
25 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
26 | To come to terms with it demands an abrupt shift in one 's conceptualization of the rational man , which runs against resistance from one 's vanity , from a certain ideal of human dignity perhaps , but above all from habit . |
27 | But it says with it has a limited budget and Touchdown will have to compete with other deserving projects . |
28 | No one is disputing that the number of tournaments has increased and with it comes an overall increase in the numbers of people playing in them . |
29 | To the French he was a great innovator , an artist who brought a startling lightness to the execution of his pictures , and with it introduced a fresh breeze of English naturalism into French landscape painting . |
30 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |