Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon threw the ball high , running for it himself and falling to catch it just for the pleasure of movement in sunshine . |
| 2 | ‘ And it would be unfair at this stage to concentrate it exclusively on the airline . ’ |
| 3 | What better way to test the mettle of the new Calibra 16v than to pitch it directly against the class best , VW 's Corrado G60 ? |
| 4 | Ask Mr Brown about Proposition 13 , the 1978 ballot initiative that crippled local government , and he will say that it should be reformed ; but he has hardly been spotted on the barricades shouting that cause , let alone trying to tackle it directly in the legislature . |
| 5 | The bureaucracy will be remunerated so as to set it apart from the rest of society and reinforce its internal hierarchy . |
| 6 | I 'm going to fit it neatly into the neck of the one of the bottles . |
| 7 | She was obviously very unhappy and managed to conceal it most of the time . ’ |
| 8 | They told the lieutenant over at the hotel , but he wanted to hear it directly from the company . |
| 9 | Buchan chose to express it indirectly through the musings of the young Russian princess Saskia : |
| 10 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
| 11 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 12 | I mean I was asked to do it right from the word go was n't I ? |
| 13 | If this is to be done , despite the number who are brought up in other religions , it is reasonable to do it largely through the medium of Christianity , simply because Christianity exists as an institution in this country , and is by no means dead . |
| 14 | ‘ D' you know , Jessica , it 's impossible to do it badly on the coast of Ireland . |
| 15 | I could n't motivate myself to do it just for the sake of it . |
| 16 | In the days when I used to drink alcohol I 'd have said it was possible to do it only on the basis of several glasses of sherry . |
| 17 | a Tobby and they do this body camping , they have to do it early in the morning or late at night when it 's cool and it produces this liquid which verbella it 's already fermenting and at this |
| 18 | But I wanted to try to put it right in the eyes of every football follower in the country , and rectify the idea that I was a 100 per cent failure like everyone thought I was . |
| 19 | ‘ But I wanted to try to put it right in the eyes of every football follower in the country , and rectify the idea that I was a 100 per cent failure , which is what everyone thought I was . ’ |
| 20 | If someone had neglected to put it away in the buffet after supper , then with luck it had been forgotten and would not be missed . |
| 21 | ‘ Seems to put it squarely on the meal to me , Rose . |
| 22 | To class housework as manual work is thus to put it higher up the scale of job prestige . |
| 23 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 24 | Also , while I do n't desperately miss most of the extra facilities found on the big brother GP12 preamp , I really feel a balanced DI output would be a great advantage here when feeding a desk and would obviate the need for a separate DI box , as I 'm sure a large number of this combo 's potential users will be hoping to use it either in the studio or to reinforce their sound through a PA . |
| 25 | Snow piled against it , threatening to destroy it , but this helped to protect it eventually as the snow wall hardened and compacted . |
| 26 | The way to deal with the international support system at the moment is to reduce it right across the board — for all support systems to be reduced at a speed which farmers can bear and which bears on different types of farmers equally , both within the Community and as between the Community and our competitors in the United States . |
| 27 | I do not believe that borrowing on that scale is acceptable and I shall be announcing measures today to reduce it progressively over the years ahead . |
| 28 | His arms had sunk in and he was twisting around , thrashing his head to keep it away from the wall — but it still sucked him in . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I thought the whole idea was to keep it away from the public ? |
| 30 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |