Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and a bloke down in Cardiff put it on the jig and he erm he er does all the taxi 's you know |
| 2 | By then southern and eastern England had been extensively ravaged , and £137,000 paid in attempts to rid it of the enemy . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 4 | If I wish to buy a manufactured object from a shopkeeper , the shopkeeper must first obtain it from a wholesaler , the wholesaler must then in turn obtain it from the manufacturer , who must in turn obtain components and raw materials from other suppliers further down the line . |
| 5 | They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 . |
| 6 | Last Sunday 200 GCSE students from Down 's School in Compton saw it at the cinema as part of their coursework . |
| 7 | The virtue of the Prince must be ‘ secured , like Ulysses , to the mast of the law , in order to save it from the seductive voices of flattery and vanity ’ . |
| 8 | It is with the legitimacy of this discretion , and particularly with the form that the rules of company law should take in order to control it in the public interest , that this book is principally concerned . |
| 9 | In us , each side has an area of about one square foot , so the crinkled appearance results from the need to crumple the sheet like a piece of paper in order to accommodate it within the skull . |
| 10 | As salt would have been a precious commodity , all their meat had to be air-dried in order to preserve it for the winter months , and this was done by the use of cleits . |
| 11 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 12 | It must then be updated in order to associate it with the name and issue number of the product package for which it is to provide a reference . |
| 13 | The user must then update the product using option 5.1.2 in order to associate it with the name and issue number of the product package for which it is to provide a reference . |
| 14 | Prepare the cross-spar to the length indicated ( about 60mm longer than the spine ) and you will soon see why it is generally called a ‘ spreader ’ , as you stick first one end down with more strong tape , then have to curve it , in order to fit it within the kite shape at the other end and onto the final corner . |
| 15 | More significantly , if questions may not even be asked in open court about illegal tapping , how is the victim to find out about it in order to bring it to the attention of the police ? |
| 16 | This very frequently discussed feature of Hebrew poetry needs to be mentioned here primarily in order to distinguish it from the subject of this paper . |
| 17 | While the lull in the firing persisted , the Magistrate ordered earth to be thrown over the rotting mountain of offal in order to cover it like the crust of a pie . |
| 18 | Knowledge of this fact being the result of the finding , the to infinitive is required in order to evoke it in the subsequence of the event of discovering denoted by the main verb . |
| 19 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 20 | Historians will seek to understand the late twentieth century in order to relate it to the collective identities and experiences of their own period . |
| 21 | The first of the three lamps is referred to as the backlight , and its function is to provide a rim of light from behind the subject in order to separate it from the background . |
| 22 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 23 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
| 24 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 25 | I was told that the money that was threatened for housing associations which was an important element in structure , the government has in fact included it in the forthcoming budget , so that is encouraging , that aspect of it . |
| 26 | What happened next in Hollywood shocked it to the core and brought Nicholson and Hopper to the heart of one of the great tragedies of this drug-infested era … |