Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway .
2 This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it !
3 ‘ Thus , ’ as J. A. Burrow remarks , ‘ as Duke Humphrey 's guests worked their way through this very unpenitential fish banquet , they were invited to see in it the four courses of their own life 's feast . ’
4 Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup .
5 In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear .
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