Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 2 | He wants to expose it before the whole world , but he needs your help . ’ |
| 3 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 4 | When she applies this to her test situations , however , she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies . |
| 5 | The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes . |
| 6 | To create a separate agency for a particular task helps to remove it from the political arena . |
| 7 | The row centres on subsidies to French farmers — whose votes are vital if Delors hopes to make it to the French Presidency . |
| 8 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 9 | The larger the largest structure in the universe the more difficult it becomes to reconcile it with the uniform distribution of matter in the early universe . |
| 10 | Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ . |