Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 2 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 3 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 4 | People born since the 1890s have been unnaturally large because they have eaten too much protein believing it to be essential for growth , says survey author Geoffrey Cannon in New Woman magazine . |
| 5 | A business acquisition can be completed within sixteen weeks , with the Treuhand rationalising it in anticipation of purchase , offering financial advice , cancelling former obligations and providing attractive contractual terms . |
| 6 | Bartram had insisted that this differed from the candleberry , Myrica cerifera , while Miller had found other authors ranging it with the Liquidambar , ‘ so I shall be much obliged to you , if you can send me a perfect specimen , that I may determine its proper genus . ’ |
| 7 | I have purposely positioned this photograph away from the conference photographs to avoid readers confusing it with views of the Institute Officers . |
| 8 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 9 | The US sample scores lowest for clarity of problem understanding and production involvement in design , probably representing the standing of the production function in the USA in this industry and the communication gap separating it from R&D , another cultural factor . |
| 10 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 11 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 12 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 13 | This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end . |
| 14 | Cheap land prices in the region , offering poor cash returns , have also deterred the agent taking it under its wing . |
| 15 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 16 | The Emperor 's appeal in 1863 for a general European congress to settle ‘ outstanding problems ’ had been rejected all round , Queen Victoria dismissing it as ‘ an impertinence ’ . |
| 17 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 18 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 19 | A 6′ 4″ natural athlete from Eastbourne who spent the winter slumming it as a ski-guide on the slopes of Meribel , he completed the over when Jones limped out of Lancashire 's victory quest at Hove , then proceeded to halt the charge with a career-best 5 for 54 . |
| 20 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 21 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 22 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 23 | Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian . |
| 24 | Augustus Aikhomu replacing it with a vice-presidency to which on Aug. 30 he appointed Aikhomu ; the appointment caused some surprise in that the job had been expected to go to a civilian . |
| 25 | The jeweller 's in Nevill Street recalled by Mr Charles Price was owned by Mr Rowe , although the dictating error turning it into Rose the Jewellers is readily understood . |
| 26 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 27 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 28 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 29 | A weekly magazine , L'Europeo , published a piece on the problems of restoration and reproduced a photograph of a panel by the sixteenth-century Ferrarese painter Ortolano , in the Pinacoteca Capodimonte , with a caption describing it as Leonardo 's ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 30 | If that individual is not its mother but a human foster parent feeding it from a bottle , the lamb imprints on whoever held the bottle . |