Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it 's too hot , use gloves or push it over with a spade and lift the other end up so now the holes that were in the bottom are now on top and there is smoke coming out of them . |
| 2 | A white face was the only qualification required for work , modelling or hamming it up in a TV commercial . |
| 3 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 4 | Someone who 's forever pushing her hair out of her eyes , or stuffing it up in a clip on top of her head simply looks harassed . |
| 5 | It can involve redrawing the work to show a different scale of projection , or breaking it down into a general drawing or a series of drawings . |
| 6 | Initially , he attempted to browbeat the pope into judging the case in his favour or handing it back to an English ecclesiastical court . |
| 7 | Fit your car with a catalytic converter , if possible , or trade it in for a new model — cars made after 1993 must have them . |
| 8 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 9 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 10 | She fetched my rope and laid it out on a clear patch of ground . |
| 11 | Guido drained his whisky glass and laid it down on a nearby table . |
| 12 | He folded his newspaper and laid it down on a seat beside him . |
| 13 | And if it was just exhausted , it was simply a question of postponing his own ploughing and resting it up for a day or two until it had regained its appetite and its strength . |
| 14 | What you did was to save the lot up and cash it in for a big meal . |
| 15 | The easiest method of growing this species is to grow it in a flower-pot immersed in a shallow tank and bring it up to a reasonable size . |
| 16 | Only the Conservatives will substantially reduce the Community Charge in Oxford , and bring it down to a level that people can afford . |
| 17 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 18 | He took a wagonload of the spoiled crop to San Francisco and passed it off as a Peruvian delicacy . |
| 19 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 20 | He untwisted the wire and straightened it out into a piece about a yard long . |
| 21 | MOTORIST Janet Glover put her new £10,000 Toyota Corolla in for its first service — and got it back with an unwanted extra . |
| 22 | You sit there in the head man 's office , you wave your hands about , your voice goes up and down , you raise your eyebrows and round it off with a quizzical smile and a subtle twist of the head . |
| 23 | Epsilon consists of an extremely luminous supergiant , perhaps over 100000 times as powerful as the Sun , together with a mysterious companion which has never been seen , and is known only because it periodically passes in front of the supergiant and dims it by about a magnitude . |
| 24 | You know how you poke your nose against wire netting and push it up against an apple tree , but you still ca n't bite the bark because of the wire . |
| 25 | Just write it on a memo form Paul and send it round with a circulation slip , and those who feel they want to get involved put their name down , probably the quickest way of doing it . |
| 26 | It lay around the office for a day or two , until someone had time to open it and send it back with a brief note , giving the time and circumstances of Elsie 's death . |
| 27 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
| 28 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 29 | One of mankind 's first artistic gestures was to cover his hand with charcoal and press it on to a cave wall : ‘ I , man , was here ! ’ |
| 30 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |