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

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1 It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time .
2 He 's not the only one — but he made the mistake of telling it to the Washington Post .
3 It was sensitive stuff and he had no intention of discussing it with the Bristol media .
4 An alternative , where the PC is the source , is to use one of the proprietary conversion routines to change the file into either Word or WordPerfect format before sending it to the Macintosh .
5 The company 's delays in reporting it to the NRC led the engineers to do so themselves .
6 He said he did n't know what the UK operation would look like after the restructuring but said most resources would be concentrated in Switzerland : ‘ support and marketing is here , so there 's not much point in having it in the UK too . ’
7 All aircraft and ships are banned from carrying it into the Philippines , and the Filipino Consul in Hawaii has to give the go-ahead for any flight containing Mr Marcos 's remains before it is allowed to take off .
8 Durability , comfort , less fatigue and increased ball control are some of the reasons why it has become a Grand Slam surface , and why En Tout Cas decided to endorse its stated policy of choice and availability of surfaces , by bringing it to the UK .
9 We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea .
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