Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 2 | It seemed to be standing in the snow , a little metal cap protecting it against the biting breeze , but as we approached closer , my stomach turned . |
| 3 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 4 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 5 | For example polymethyl methacrylate ( Perspex , Plexiglas ) may be moulded to any desired shape by warming it to temperatures little over 100°C and cooling it in the deformed state . |
| 6 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 7 | Individuals from any one country were now able to obtain any other currency for trade purposes simply by purchasing it via the foreign exchange markets . |
| 8 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 9 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 10 | This is a simple , but amusing , sequence with a stick-man player flicking the ball up , chesting it down , etc , before shooting/heading it towards the unseen net — a ‘ goal ’ or ‘ saved ’ caption then appears . |
| 11 | Thomas moved , knocking it into the red weed . |
| 12 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 13 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 14 | Applying it to the particular example , already considered , and so that as before . |
| 15 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 16 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
| 17 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 18 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 19 | Pop the end of the yarn beneath this cone , threading it through the little arm as usual and away you go . |
| 20 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 21 | That will increase Fleet/Norstar 's assets by 40% to $47 billion , catapulting it into the top rank of American banks . |
| 22 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 23 | It is a practical issue because by taking information out of the analogue world , the ‘ real ’ world , comprehensible and palpable to human beings , and translating it into the digital world , we make it infinitely changeable . |
| 24 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 25 | If the chest is forced open , the same trap will be triggered , save that there 's no chance of defusing it with the extra lock-turn . |
| 26 | But one can ask why Adorno did not investigate the origins of swing before so quickly assimilating it to the prevailing Tin Pan Alley dance-band style . |
| 27 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 28 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 29 | If any other knife identified by its construction as being suitable for banning comes on the market or enters the country in some way , of course we will readily and rapidly consider adding it to the controlled list . |
| 30 | He fetched cold water in the saucepan , adding it to the hot water . |