Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let's hear it for the greatest tennis player in the world ! |
| 2 | Kenneth Anderson , 53 , of Northumbria Walk , West Denton , Newcastle , who was jailed in 1989 for an armed robbery at a council housing office in Newcastle 's Denton Park , mistaking it for the adjoining post office , had his 12-year-prison sentence upheld by the Criminal Appeal Court in London yesterday . |
| 3 | of the population the £26.2 billion that they have had in tax cuts and use it for the national health service , pensioners , schools and all the social services . |
| 4 | The tower soon became part of the landscape , so much so , that Berners donned his artist 's hat to paint it for the local shell guide . |
| 5 | An early morning mist hung over York racecourse , gift-wrapping it for the fine autumn day 's racing that lay ahead . |
| 6 | We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve . |
| 7 | On the other hand , if you 're making something the world wants , by making it as the lowest cost supplier , you can usually expand your work-force . |
| 8 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 9 | I recently bought a Series III 1979 lightweight with 19,000 miles on it through the British Army auction here in Hong Kong . |
| 10 | AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure . |
| 11 | In 1925 the Reid brothers , William 's sons , sold the hotel to a British company , and in 1937 it was sold to the Blandy family who closed it during the Second World War and then modernized it before it re-Opened . |
| 12 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 13 | The weatherman 's just lost it off the long-range radar screen . |
| 14 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 15 | Supporters of the Torness Alliance , committed to frustrating the building plans , had occupied and refurbished a derelict cottage on the edge of the site and renamed it after the local Half Moon Bay . |
| 16 | I can hear it like the constant traffic noise below my window . |
| 17 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 18 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 19 | Vic selects a cassette and slots it into the four-speaker stereo system . |
| 20 | He forked the remaining bit of sausage and dipped it into the runny egg yolk . |
| 21 | As far as overall weight is concerned , it 's surprisingly manageable and its size puts it into the larger car boot category for transport . |
| 22 | For the electronically minded , the easiest method is to obtain a 25 Kohm volume control from a radio spares shop , mount this in a metal box to screen it from hum pick-up , and connect it into the audio dub line . |
| 23 | It vapourized Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands , turning it into the many-coloured mushroom cloud , 25 miles high and 100 miles wide , which became the symbol of anxiety for mankind . |
| 24 | This means that you can pick up a file from File Manager ( or another compatible file handling shell ) and drop it onto the minimised WSWIN icon , at which point the application opens with your file ready for editing . |
| 25 | If it is not the one required , you should overtype it with the correct option number and press RETURN . |
| 26 | Two lifts link it with the private sun terrace , bathing platform and sea water swimming pool below . |
| 27 | The argument was that if the right hemisphere can store a representation of the auditory set and compare it with the visual probe letter then there should be an advantage in reaction time to letters presented in the LVF compared to the RVF . |
| 28 | First we raise one index and contract it with the remaining covector index to give . |
| 29 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 30 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |