Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was a simple matter of slitting along the length of the tubed insulation and sliding it onto the edge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Taking the purple book off the pillow and laying it on the floor , he had tried to think logically . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | However , he is still obsessed with wood and eating it in the park . |
| 15 | She sat down , spreading her damp hair and squeezing it in the ends of the towel , teasing it out between her fingers . |
| 16 | Fairfax was looking forward to restoring it to its pristine splendour and stuffing it to the roof with Caroline antiques . |
| 17 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , they 'll have to , ’ said Nicholson pulling the necktie from his shirt and flinging it across the back of a chair . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Naw , ’ he replied angrily , crumpling up the pools coupon and throwing it at the television set . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He begins without ceremony by pulling off the blouse and flinging it in the gully . |
| 26 | Taking the score out of my brief-case and putting it on the podium : that is not my way . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Having no idea of the detonation mechanism , he mentally called up the shortest route to the deck , while grasping the device and pulling it off the wall . |
| 30 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |