Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The result is that the club only hits the top half of the ball sending it through the green illustration below ) . |
| 5 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the case of a mammal , the egg is retained within the body so the mother 's body is effectively another part of the egg providing it through the placenta with nutrients and so on . |
| 8 | The cup becomes the retina , and the stalk connecting it to the brain the optic nerve . |
| 9 | Although the laws governing the different orders are not strictly reducible to each other , Comte felt that the basis for sociology could be found in biology , the science preceding it in the hierarchy . |
| 10 | The circumstances might well be described as ‘ the bank leaving it to the husband to obtain the presence of the wife at the bank for the purposes of signing the documents . ’ |
| 11 | The court heard several witnesses say they saw Mr Austin 's car suddenly swerve to the right in the outsidfe lane , then violently to the left and into the front of the bus forcing it off the carriageway . |
| 12 | Common Law could not prevent the trustee employing it for the wife 's benefit , and Equity would compel him to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 14 | However it ca n't just be bolted on to the tractor , and Mr Tomlinson had to spend further hours in the workshop matching it to the tractor 's backend and getting the gearing right . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 17 | It found it ‘ indisputable that under Article 103 of the Charter the Member State called upon to apply the sanctions could not claim to be debarred from doing so by a treaty binding it to the non-Member State which was the subject of the sanctions . ’ |
| 18 | To build it on the site between East Hanney and Steventon , Thames Water would have to buy up 4 farms and 16 houses , divert the road between the two villages , landscape the area around the water and build a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |
| 19 | The 4 square mile reservoir would cover an area south-west of Abingdon in Oxfordshire and would mean Thames Water buying up 4 farms and 16 homes , diverting the road between East Hanney and Steventon , landscaping the 80 foot embankment around the water , and building a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |