Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 2 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 3 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 4 | As well as an excellent display , the Lynx has a much louder speaker and — in the tradition of the Atari 8-bits and Commodore Amiga — a powerful set of chips to help it with the animation needed for superior three-dimensional games . |
| 5 | It was also a prison , and at the back of the palace is the beautiful Bridge of Sighs connecting it with the dark , damp cells . |
| 6 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 7 | : ’ Speaking in London almost a year after becoming Chairman of British Coal , Mr. Clarke said — What we are seeing is a sort of energy arms race , with attempts to justify it on the grounds of guaranteeing security , diversity and competition — but in reality , guaranteeing nothing but higher electricity prices , a rapid abandonment of other fuel reserves , and reliance on as yet unproven overseas resources . ' |
| 8 | Macnaghten J. dealt with the question whether the action is maintainable on the ground of the principle of Foakes v. Beer ( above , p.240 ) , to which I have referred , and he says : ‘ In the present case the jury , by their verdict , have found that on July 6 Mr. Kennard made an offer that if , on the following day , the plaintiff obtained the money and paid it into a bank at Eastbourne with instructions to remit it to the account of Stanley Evans & Co. at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , he would not serve the bankruptcy notice . |
| 9 | What followed can only be described as a wild west show , with representatives chasing it around the Norfolk showground , much tot he amusement of everyone in the vicinity . |
| 10 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 11 | If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom . |
| 12 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 13 | But for people like Kim even the chance of saying goodbye to needles makes it worth the wait . |
| 14 | During the early months of 1990 Avril 's response to the growing opposition had included attempts to suppress it through the imposition in January of a " state of siege " , followed by efforts to defuse it through the promise of free elections [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 15 | Stir it softly over a slow fire , and when it begins to simmer , take it off , and by degrees stir it into the gooseberries . |