Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is gratifying to the region that tribute is paid to Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery : ‘ The output of the Sunderland potteries as a whole is without doubt the best documented — one must be grateful to the Sunderland Museum for the research done — and for summarising it so admirably in the publication Sunderland Pottery . |
| 2 | She made his costume , cutting down a white linen shirt and fitting it tight up round the neck . |
| 3 | To meet this problem , most makes have polished smooth plastic handles — unlike one well-known manufacturer who , for many years and until only relatively recently , proudly proclaimed the brand name by imprinting it deeply all over the handles — which gave the user a good ‘ grip ’ , but therefore virtually ensured sore , blistered hands whenever there was much work to be done |
| 4 | He said , ‘ Coffee , sir , ’ and offered the mug , though holding it just out of the President 's reach . |
| 5 | I would see through a more coactive involvement in Europe , and establishing not just the physical link of the chunnel but expanding it right up to the northwest , a line that goes right the way through , that there is a material benefit to this area , from that connection . |
| 6 | At about 50 atmospheres the carbon dioxide readily dissolves in water thus removing it almost completely from the hydrogen . |
| 7 | Of those who laughed then , there are countless numbers who are no longer laughing today , and those who are still laughing now , will perhaps also not be doing it any longer in the time to come . ’ |
| 8 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 9 | If a break does occur the wire tends to coil up , and it is easy to make the mistake of just tying the broken ends together and towing it straight back to the launch point for the next launch . |
| 10 | Taking it far enough up the beach so that it does n't blow away again . |
| 11 | It would impose another tier of bureaucracy on top of local government , taking it further away from the people . |
| 12 | She thumbed them into the magazine before placing it carefully back in the box with the weapon . |
| 13 | The beautiful ‘ Descent into Limbo ’ from the collection of Mrs Barbara Johnson has been dated by the Metropolitan 's Keith Christiansen ( curator of the paintings section ) to around 1492 , but in the opinion of a number of scholars including David Landau , the exhibition 's organiser , there are strong stylistic arguments for placing it much earlier in the artist 's oeuvre . |
| 14 | He reeled in the line , flicking it deftly out of the water . |
| 15 | Tina might have told her mother this , during one of their evenings of confidences , but it had never occurred to her , she being neither proud nor ashamed of it , nor even thinking it very out of the ordinary . |
| 16 | He/she must walk a tightrope too : interpret a tentative remark too directly and you may sound rude — but reproducing it too closely to the original may sound so tentative as to be confusing in the other language . |