Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Although I know that my hon. Friend is interested in switching it to the autumn , we have no plans to do that because there are different views about it . |
2 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |
3 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
4 | Although the case for commitment accounting improving budgetary control is a good one , there is a real problem involved in adopting it in the financial accounts . |
5 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
6 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
7 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
8 | There is great potential in the land around the port in Belfast and it is important that , when that land is sold , it is sold to a company capable of developing it to the best advantage of the people of Belfast and Northern Ireland . |
9 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
10 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
11 | Use a spirit level to ensure that the glazed sheet is horizontal before fixing it to the barge board with stainless steel screws 300mm apart . |
12 | Their problems are not likely to be solved unless this aspect of them is dealt with and some skill may be necessary in drawing it into the light . |
13 | We came very close to doing it at the last election . |
14 | He had worked out her vulnerability and was intent on exploiting it to the full . |
15 | Remove as much as possible by scraping it off the glass and syphoning it out . |
16 | You never come near to suspecting it in the North . |