Example sentences of "of [v-ing] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |
| 2 | Whether the reader disagrees with that message or not , Eliot can not be accused of suddenly presenting it or of bringing it to the fore simply because of his Christian faith . |
| 3 | Erm , we started off with was that , erm , we would just write down any word that came up to our head , in terms of relating it to the story i.e. we thought about memories , and memories Erm , this is gon na match up with your is n't it . |
| 4 | Despite the difficulties of relating it to the archaeology , Bede 's statement about the origins of the Germanic settlers in England is generally accepted . |
| 5 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |
| 6 | And I had Avenger estate , and I done the same with that and I got away with it for ages and I what you want a do , I know what you wan na do he erm , I mean that 's that 's really sort of pushing it over the top but he got a great big sheet of polythene , he went down to ready mix and had a load of ready mix in the back of this Avenger estate , brand new he 'd only just got it ! |
| 7 | A simple microscopic examination of some vaginal discharge , suspended in a salt solution , will give the diagnosis in most cases , and there are also reliable methods of culturing it in the laboratory . |
| 8 | The picture passed to her son , John Whitney Payson , who lent it to a university museum in Maine with the intention of bequeathing it to the university in return for eventual tax relief on his estate . |
| 9 | By February he was at least considering a retirement condition , though still sceptical about its effect on unemployment , and commissioned a paper on the feasibility of enforcing it from the Ministry of Labour 's representative on the Committee , P.Y. Blundun . |
| 10 | ‘ Because of the angle I had no chance of getting it over the bar with my right foot so I simply hit it with the left and it went over . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And , believe me , I shall make a point of reporting it to the hotel manager without delay . ’ |
| 12 | Since the egg can not enter the oviduct , the treatment consists of removing it from the ovary prior to ovulation , fertilizing it in the laboratory , and placing the proembryo into the uterus where it has a chance to implant . |
| 13 | instead of sending it through the post at Christmas I thought I 'd bring it . |
| 14 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
| 15 | Although Dicken 's Barnaby Rudge was a historical novel , set several decades before the period in which it was written , few modern readers are capable of distinguishing it from the author 's non-period writings . |
| 16 | But gradually the idea of performing it in the garden , and the setting of the last act of Figaro , which all takes place in the garden , started to suggest an alternative scenario for moments from the opera . |
| 17 | Well I mean I know that twenty percent is twenty pound in a hundred , but what 's a quick way of doing it on the calculator . |
| 18 | But , as one ex-councillor puts it , ‘ If he ca n't manage to present the Labour Party in new colours in his own constituency , what hope has he of doing it in the country ? ’ |
| 19 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
| 20 | One way would be to take the cost of buying a car of the same age and then trying to quantify the cost of running it throughout the notice period . |
| 21 | The City and the County Councils have looked very seriously at the erm traffic study that the Oxford Preservation Trust commissioned , and they are working on it and working on ways of implementing it within the City centre . |
| 22 | The character has a base 20% chance each round of dragging it from the skeleton 's grasp . |
| 23 | The Malaysians hoped in particular that , once relations between Hanoi and Bangkok were normalised , the concept of neutralisation would gather new momentum because ASEAN would recognise the importance of detaching Indo-Chinese communism from the communism of China and the USSR , and of merging it in the mainstream of Southeast Asian nationalism . |
| 24 | Instead of putting it in the power of the creditor to prevent his debtor from obtaining his liberty on giving up his all , it vested the right of a negative in the judges in open court , where it was more just to place it than to allow it to remain in the power of the creditor who , from motives of resentment , was less likely to decide impartially in his own cause . |
| 25 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 26 | Some talk of extending it until the Group of Seven summit in Tokyo in early July ; others favour calling an extraordinary session in September . |
| 27 | ‘ There must be some method of edging it round the corner , ’ said Ludens . |
| 28 | Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ? |
| 29 | He let his mind play with that again , the idea of making it on the box . |
| 30 | This needs appropriate institutions , similar to Marshall Aid after the war , instead of leaving it to the World Bank and the IMF and various ad hoc advisers . |