Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Thus from a very narrow and restricted expression there has been drawn a very wide and unrestricted principle , all based on the assumed purpose of Parliament and the perceived absurdity of seeking to effect it by the language in which Parliament actually chose to express it .
2 Ken kept his sheet music in the one he had constructed in the small back bedroom , so fear of splashing kept it on the whole unused .
3 Much of the energy of the press and television fraternity was devoted to battling for access to news material , sometimes involving conflicts within news ‘ pools ’ and sometimes between news-gatherers and the military , as when the Iraqi government expelled most journalists or the French agency AFP was reported to be bringing a lawsuit against the Pentagon , which AFP accused of having excluded it from the pools .
4 Although the original intention had been to formally assess the new curriculum before deciding to extend it to the rest of the school , various forces came into play to ensure that by 1987 the entire 160 strong intake was studying the new pathway course .
5 If ever German society was to collapse , argued a writer in 1855 , it would be because the middle classes had begun to pursue appearance and luxury ‘ without seeking to counterbalance it with the simple and hard-working ( competent ) sense of the bourgeois [ Buergersinn ] , with respect for the spiritual forces of life , with the effort to identify science , ideas and talent with the progressive development of the Third Estate ’ .
6 ‘ He said you could grieve without having to prove it to the neighbours by wearing black . ’
7 Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges .
8 He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking .
9 I have always thought that maybe I had damaged the transfer needle by trying to use it with the ribber bed on half pitch .
10 Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history .
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