Example sentences of "[vb base] it [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They honour it in the manner of warring tribes observing a precarious truce , waiting nervously for hostilities to reopen . |
| 2 | Plenty of time to go quietly upstairs , take the key down from behind the faded watercolour of the lakes of Killarney , and slip it into the lock of her dead mother 's bedroom . |
| 3 | I can not believe that many members of the public believe that that is justice , or that it conveys the right message to those who , tonight , will steal a car and race it in the path of some other innocent victim . |
| 4 | Using half the remaining marzipan ( 225g/8oz ) , model a long tail and attach it to the back of the body , smoothing over the join with your fingers . |
| 5 | If a friendly settlement is not reached , the Commission must form its own opinion on the matter and report it to the Committee of Ministers making such proposals as it thinks fit ( Art.31 ) . |
| 6 | Why is it — perhaps you can enlighten me — why is it , for example , they roast topside of beef in the first place and in the second cook it to the consistency of baked cow-pat ? ’ |
| 7 | One day soon I will rip its beak off and glue it onto the end of my own fine aquiline conk , and , secure in my new disguise , I 'll be down to the Inland Revenue Enforcement ( B ) in Barrington Road and scrabbling frantically at my tax inspector 's trousers ( I may be wrong , but I picture them as that specially rich shade of brown polyester-and-worsted that only Dunn & Co can achieve ) before you can say , ‘ Well , what 's got into you , dearie ? ’ |
| 8 | Take a piece of the almond paste and flatten it in the palm of your hand . |
| 9 | I 'm trying to make it more beautiful and transform it into the language of clothes . |
| 10 | The significance of the service lies in the attempt to take the process away from them and place it under the control of national and local welfare élites . |
| 11 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 12 | Once you are satisfied that the glass is spotless , carefully place it over the top of the design . |
| 13 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 14 | When using this table you may find it easier to take a sheet of A4 paper , place it alongside the column of Characteristics and mark the symptoms of your patient on the edge of the sheet using the above symbols . |
| 15 | You then place it in the neck of a balloon and blow it up and tie it with the piece of paper inside . |
| 16 | Where standard discussions of autonomy place it in the context of rights , freedom and equality , paternalism and rationality , here it is discussed in conjunction with questions of fantasy , how we treat others , social and personal relations , and responsibilities . |
| 17 | Okay , you want the body temperature kept at an even level , do n't have it too high , do n't have it too low , cos if you shiver you make use of muscles and then the muscles will call on oxygen and then you 'll shiver , you do n't want them there you want the blood in here , if you make them sweat you 'll bring the blood to the surface of the skin again to lose heat , and that 's again precisely where you do n't need , you want it in the core of the body so you maintain an even body temperature . |
| 18 | Now if you 're gon na do this you really want it in the form of X squared first do n't you ? really to make it To make the thing easy to work , are n't you ? |
| 19 | If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority . |
| 20 | Binoculars show it in the guise of a glittering diamond ; with × 20 it is almost dazzling . |
| 21 | So , really make sure you spread it over the whole of the face , rubbing it in with your fingers . |
| 22 | Push some plaster through the hole and spread it around the back of the hole . |
| 23 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 24 | But when on first hearing of this arrangement I tried to inform Miss Kenton of it , she once again refused to converse with me , and in order to accomplish matters as quickly as possible I was actually obliged to write a note and put it under the door of her parlour . |
| 25 | You could take it to the kitchen and put it under the grill of the electric cooker in order to get it hot , without knowing why it should be hot . |
| 26 | But , as Heseltine 's private secretary , the highly regarded Ministry of Defence official Richard Mottram , put it during the trial of Clive Ponting , ‘ In highly-charged political matters , one person 's ambiguity may be another person 's truth . ’ |
| 27 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
| 28 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 29 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 30 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |