Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it . |
| 2 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 3 | At the door of the Registrar 's office was a long line of people ending at the desk where the Officer 's clerk sat drinking tea and lording it over the supplicants . |
| 4 | It may be worth making a sample heading with a little spare fabric and fitting it to the track with appropriate hooks in order to ascertain the depth needed . |
| 5 | In the sedimentation tube technique the particles are released simultaneously from the water surface , a process achieved by holding a 2–5 g sample on a platen by means of a wetting agent and lowering it into the water surface . |
| 6 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 7 | It was a simple matter of slitting along the length of the tubed insulation and sliding it onto the edge . |
| 8 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 9 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 10 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 11 | The mass rally in Florence by the Christian Democrats — who are increasing their support in the south and losing it in the north — to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the start of the Christian Democrat movement , and the appeal to ‘ trust those who know how to govern ’ , seemed curiously old-fashioned and out of key . |
| 12 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Taking the purple book off the pillow and laying it on the floor , he had tried to think logically . |
| 14 | Although Stoy Hayward uses DOS versions of 1-2-3 , Mr Wise reports some interest in Windows : ‘ It 's mainly for ease of use , and for the increased ease of transferring a section of spreadsheet and pasting it into the middle of a document . ’ |
| 15 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 16 | How to keep doing what one enjoyed doing as a child but adapting it to the changing circumstances . |
| 17 | She sat down , spreading her damp hair and squeezing it in the ends of the towel , teasing it out between her fingers . |
| 18 | Fairfax was looking forward to restoring it to its pristine splendour and stuffing it to the roof with Caroline antiques . |
| 19 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 20 | Lean forward as you rise As in the beach start , by leaning down on a straight front arm you are taking the weight off the back of the board and putting it on the mast foot . |
| 21 | She wrapped up warmly , winding a scarf round her neck , crossing it over her chest and pinning it at the back , as her mother had done in her childhood . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , they 'll have to , ’ said Nicholson pulling the necktie from his shirt and flinging it across the back of a chair . |
| 23 | After a quick wash she dragged on an old pair of jeans and an equally ancient navy sweater before emptying the bucket and replacing it on the dresser . |
| 24 | ‘ Naw , ’ he replied angrily , crumpling up the pools coupon and throwing it at the television set . |
| 25 | If you have mastered cut and sew , this can be used for other shaping , for example by knitting a straight sleeve and cutting it to the shape required . |
| 26 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 27 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 28 | Taking the score out of my brief-case and putting it on the podium : that is not my way . |
| 29 | We had the greatest difficulty in cleaning and recording it in the very limited time available , and in fact there was no time to draw it . |
| 30 | This means running an earth wire ( 4mm 2 , or 2.5mm 2 if run in conduit ) from the main earthing point and linking it to the hot and cold pipes , the taps and any metal fittings such as metal sinks . |