Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half bury the log or timber in soil in a part of the garden where it will stay damp , or put it on a shaded window-sill in a plastic container ( ice-cream carton ) . |
| 2 | Or put it in a left-luggage compartment somewhere . ’ |
| 3 | It is difficult to speak of popular religion or to define it in a satisfactory way , because it included an amalgam of magic and superstition , belief and doubt , the pagan and the Christian . |
| 4 | Post a notice as large as is allowed , with coloured lettering , or mount it on a jazzy or tartan paper . |
| 5 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 6 | Diluting it and mixing in it into slurry lagoons or spreading it at a low rate on grassland was a method used in the past , but even that may not be possible now . |
| 7 | Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions . |
| 8 | The seller must be someone who is hiring the vehicle under a hire purchase agreement or buying it under a conditional sale agreement . |
| 9 | To refer the case back to the same solicitor who has reported that the case can not now be won , or refer it to a different lawyer ? |
| 10 | Ms. Quant confided to delegates that she often jollied Plunkett ( her husband , entrepreneur Alexander Plunkett-Green ) into helping her dye her pubic hair some fantasy shade , or to trim it to a neat heart shape . |
| 11 | Two alternatives are possible , either to sell the machine now for £4,200 or use it in a new project that is currently under evaluation . |
| 12 | burning pet waste , or placing it in a sealed bag in a suitable container . |
| 13 | It was stated that authorities on the Japanese constitution did not see difficulty in fitting security provisions into a treaty or placing it in a discrete American-Japanese treaty . |
| 14 | Most of us who are brought up in the Western Christian tradition take the divinity of Jesus for granted or regard it as a philosophical problem . |
| 15 | At one time it was not uncommon for a retailer to display an exemption clause in his premises or include it in a written contract even though that clause was rendered totally ineffective by Act of Parliament . |
| 16 | I think either that or have it on a separate sheet . |
| 17 | Economic living is a splendid virtue when practised by the bourgeoisie , but the French neither liked nor respected it as a kingly attribute . |
| 18 | Remove the dough from the bowl and knead it on a floured board until smooth , about 5 minutes . |
| 19 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
| 20 | UCLA 's head of the Art department , Henry T. Hopkins , is taking over the directorship , and he plans to show special exhibitions in the building and develop it as a cultural centre for ‘ lectures , symposia , dance , film and poetry readings ’ . |
| 21 | ( Some pocket calculators will do this ; otherwise one obtains a random integer of 5 or 6 digits from a random number table and precedes it with a decimal point . ) |
| 22 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 23 | He took her protesting hand , and laid it on a thick roll of tablecloths between their bodies . |
| 24 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 25 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 26 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 27 | If they do not pay , he will take the land back and sell it to a rich friend . |
| 28 | Jimmy had the gun in his hands now , and levelled it with a cool and grim purpose at Rohmer . |
| 29 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 30 | If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke . |