Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 2 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 3 | You will receive a copy of the report and have the opportunity to discuss it in an interview . |
| 4 | It 's about six feet in height and just about shoulder width , er it 's coloured black and it has a bullet proof glass window of about six inches by four inches which enables the er officer behind the shield to manoeuvre it in the correct position . |
| 5 | The south-west was far enough from the established centres of power for those who felt excluded from the throne to use it as a launching pad for rebellion . |
| 6 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 7 | The decision to install it in the museum 's new Henry Cole Wing in 1989 led to its restoration and trip to Japan for the Wright exhibition in 1990 . |
| 8 | Staughton J considered ( obiter and on a hypothetical basis ) the effect of a term in a contract for the sale of a ship which excluded liability unless the buyer gave the supplier a chance to rectify faults and required the buyer to return it to the shipyard for repair . |
| 9 | In exchange he would exhibit his collection there for fifteen years , keeping the freedom to exhibit it around the world , and buy and sell from it . |
| 10 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 11 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 12 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 13 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 14 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 15 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 16 | Coun Williams went on : ‘ I am told that when the property was first leased it required considerable investment by the developer to convert it into a hotel , and that the terms of the lease reflect that . |
| 17 | Telford 's warehouses were mostly destroyed by fire in 1970 , but Porters Row survives as an example of his workers ' houses , and locks on what is now the Shropshire Union Canal descend the hillside to link it with the ship canal . |
| 18 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 19 | The control you have over the video " text " gives you the flexibility to use it in the way that best suits your particular purpose at any particular time . |
| 20 | Devices are available too for giving variable prominence to one or other of the participants in the process to identify it as the topic . |
| 21 | ‘ No problem is hopeless if you 've got the courage to look it in the face . |
| 22 | Homo homini lupus : who has the courage to dispute it in the face of all evidence in his own life and in history ? |
| 23 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 24 | He took a few steps forward and tripped over a heavy iron grill set over one of the graves to protect it from the resurrectionists who had once supplied Dr Knox 's anatomy classes . |
| 25 | 587 , 596 : ‘ it seems to us that in taking the article from the shelf the customer is indeed assuming one of the rights of the owner — the right to move the article from its position on the shelf to carry it to the check-out . ’ |
| 26 | Coal was labour-intensive and the need to move it around the station and load it into engine tenders required large numbers of labourers . |
| 27 | A woman who was in danger of losing her home after she mortgaged it as security for her husband 's business debts , has won the right to keep it following a victory in the House of Lords . |
| 28 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package . |
| 29 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package . |
| 30 | The title track delivers the most catchy moments and it was a good ploy by the group to place it at the end of the tape . |