Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And whatever it was , Slorne now tried to communicate it to Creggan . |
| 2 | She loves it to death . |
| 3 | Consider the king penguin : the male is the one that incubates the egg , carrying it around on its feet and protecting it for months from the Antarctic weather with a fold of its lower belly … |
| 4 | In the Preface of the Octavo Dictionary ( 1724 ) , Philip Miller remarked that before the beginning of the century this country 's preoccupation with trade had allowed the Italians , French and Dutch to outstrip it in horticulture . |
| 5 | She shook her head at that , denying it with vigour . |
| 6 | The problem of transforming Darwin 's pangenetic theory to square it with cytology in general , and with Weismann 's theory in particular , was taken up most systematically by De Vries ; and later developments leading to the theory of the gene were to owe much to his solution : ‘ intracellular pangenesis ’ . |
| 7 | Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top . |
| 8 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 9 | You can , for substantially less money , buy bigger , flashier coupes which not only better the VW on interior and luggage accommodation but , thanks to more powerful engines , easily outperform it in acceleration and top speed and , marginally , in fuel economy . |
| 10 | ‘ I should have won it for Everton . |
| 11 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 12 | Members of Unix International have approached it about UI trying to get a piece of the COSE requirement process . |
| 13 | ‘ Solving problems , however was not Highlander 's purpose , its purpose to ‘ help people learn to solve their problems in their own way , ’ and in its life since then Highlander has always worked with the under-privileged , exploited , relatively powerless communities which have approached it for assistance . |
| 14 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 15 | FS ( 21 ) knocked in his first goal for the seniors and addressed the other contenders for the single forward role : I will have a go for the single place up front and i would like to try it vs Costa Rica . |
| 16 | A spiral perm can cost over £100 but do n't be tempted to try it at home to save money . |
| 17 | This was the plan I laid down , and the first time I had occasion to try it in practice was the Summer before the last [ 1774 ] & I then did it in the case of a Lady and in the hottest weather : the next Body I tried these experiments upon was Jan y . |
| 18 | Hell , I made a crystal radio while in Junior High School , but I do n't include it as part of my credentials . |
| 19 | For the first time in Britain , doctors can include it on death certificates as the cause of death . |
| 20 | These changes essentially affected only the production strand of the course as editorial staff retained an element of scepticism about the evolution of SGML ( and ASPIC ) and its significance for copy-editors , preferring to inform students of its existence rather than include it within working practice . |
| 21 | He did n't include it in Colton Town . ’ |
| 22 | Will you include it in future when you are talking ? |
| 23 | Of course , in practice , things are more complicated , as the Moroccan Swasa saying has it on brothers running a grocer shop : |
| 24 | I think believe your your title has changed slightly has it from women 's support group to the quarry men 's support group ? |
| 25 | Well there 's nobody in this school has it like Polly did . |
| 26 | I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory . |
| 27 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 28 | Has it in fact been a peace process at all ? |
| 29 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 30 | Mr Jeffrey Bayes , a solicitor , specialising in criminal law , commented : ‘ It is obvious that the judge has it in mind to stamp out acid house parties right now . ’ |