Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 2 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 3 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 4 | Someone has to experience it to know to the full how you feel . |
| 5 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |
| 6 | A moving map display made for GA aircraft by the Digital Sky division of U.S. electronics company Thermwood Inc has recently been modified to allow it to interface with the well-known Stormscope WX10A . |
| 7 | The company justified the closure as part as part of a cost-cutting exercise necessary to allow it to compete in the private sector . |
| 8 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 9 | In the case of the Single Currency , the weak country is forced into similar deflationary policies in order to try to depress its unit costs so as to enable it to compete against the strong countries . |
| 10 | The Izmailovo , which has 5,000 bedrooms is about to undergo a three-year , £20m refurbishment to enable it to compete in the international business and tourism travel market . |
| 11 | The Panel operates outside the financial services legislation in the UK , although some would like to see it brought within the statutory framework . |
| 12 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 13 | What the hell did I get it for — to have it sit on the fucking shelf ? |
| 14 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 15 | He attempted to have the case thrown out as " frivolous and vexatious " , but failed to have it struck off the High Court list . |
| 16 | In one of the most tantalising promises yet made in the computer industry , Unix System Laboratories Inc is claiming that independent software vendors who port their applications to its Destiny desktop implementation of Unix SVR4 will only have to do so once to have it run on the disparate architectures of Intel Corp , Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc RISC , MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC , Hewlett-Packard Co PA RISC and IBM Corp 's RS/6000 RISC . |
| 17 | Anyway , his standing in society was far too high to have it blackened by the indiscreet infidelities of a wife bored with her husband 's success . |
| 18 | Participating members should distribute the Investment Overview direct to foreign prospective purchasers in their countries unless they prefer to have it distributed by the initiating member . |
| 19 | Shaking with terror , Isabel put a hand to the wall in an attempt to hold on to something solid , only to have it scoot across the slimy surface , almost throwing her to the ground . |
| 20 | Variant weapons included the guisarme or fauchard , which persisted in many forms as late as the seventeenth century , and inflicted such horrible wounds that attempts were made to have it banned during the medieval period . |
| 21 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 22 | You got to get it out to get it ordered by the first week of January . |
| 23 | This , Corris calls the ‘ North Sea Gas Option ’ after the massive conversion exercise in the 1970s when UK Gas Board had to replace or convert every domestic gas cooker to get it to work with the new fuel . |
| 24 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 25 | An attempt by the District Attorney to overturn it resulted in the Supreme Court 's consideration of the case on April 2 . |
| 26 | Whilst the relevance of such information should not be denied , to present it divorced from the Latin American context leads to a seriously distorted picture of Soviet-Latin American relations . |
| 27 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 28 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 29 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 30 | ‘ We try to make it lighthearted for the other lads because there 's a lot of pressure . |