Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are quite capable of grabbing a solitary puffin in mid-air with their beaks or even beating it to the ground with blows of their wings . |
| 2 | And I mean , if you think that just presenting it in the , in the class is er enough |
| 3 | They 're for the child in school ; they 're for the housewife ; they 're for the businessman of the future , and an ordinary competent businessman has the capability and the possibility of actually learning how these devices work and using them , rather than just leaving it to the boffin , the scientist , the computer expert . |
| 4 | Tunstall 's main thesis is that the evidence for concentration of ownership is very weak if one charts ownership across all media fields rather than simply restricting it to the press , radio and television . |
| 5 | Lady Weighall was also responsible for laying out Jubilee Park , opposite Petwood , and later gifting it to the authorities . |
| 6 | Firing the shutter can be equally basic , by mounting a lever on the card camera box and even pulling it from the ground by separate line . |
| 7 | The drama comes from separating the tooth germ of a mouse embryo from the overlying sheet and then recombining it with the cell sheet enclosing the limb , but which would normally form skin . |
| 8 | When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again . |
| 9 | The board is steered away from the wind by initially inclining the rig forwards and then leaning it over the windward side of the board . |
| 10 | ‘ Given that an angry parent might just conceivably break Gray 's neck for , as you put it , touching up his youngster , why should he go to the trouble of severing the head , and then putting it in the Cathedral font ? |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe just as significant , this is n't a case of the corporate centre devising a policy and then imposing it on the regions — far from it . |
| 12 | Spartak defender Victor Onopko smacked Rushie while in the penalty box , but instead of pointing it out to the referee and then playing it by the book , we had David Burrows tearing into an absolutely scandalous tackle and the tone was set . |
| 13 | These include plungers , wormscrews ( for boring into a blockage and pulling it out ) , and scrapers for removing sludge and silt and either pushing it down the drain or pulling it back into the inspection chamber on which you are working . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah — now that is serious , ’ he said , picking up his shirt and reluctantly easing it over the traces of tomato pulp . |