Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be insipid to say this book loves football , it does n't , it lusts after it with a taste for the perverse and the painful . |
| 2 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 3 | He threw a stick into the river and the dog went after it in a flying leap , landing with a huge splash and paddling furiously , its black head sleek like a seal . |
| 4 | There are two storeys below it with a beautiful , rich , decoratively carved entablature on classical pattern and , below , Byzantine carved capitals of basket design and exceptional quality . |
| 5 | Spenser wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland not as a vindication of Elizabethan policy towards Ireland but as a document highly critical of it under a necessarily respectful guise . |
| 6 | His allowing X to repossess the car amounted to a ‘ delivery or transfer ’ of it under a ‘ disposition . ’ |
| 7 | But both Lord Hardwicke and Lord Eldon … established extensions of it beyond a simple gift of a chattel by its delivery : the former to a gift of money secured by a bond , by delivery of the bond ; the latter to a gift of money secured by a mortgage of land , by delivery of the mortgage deed . |
| 8 | There 's a lot of it about A late-season flu bug has bitten Scotland , writes Ian Mullen |
| 9 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 10 | Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares . |
| 11 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 12 | ‘ Gone are the days when we used to crumble half a ola of it into a chillim of tobacco . ’ |
| 13 | They formed a circle round him and he broke out of it into a gallop , tearing round and round the square in a high-spirited frenzy . |
| 14 | " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . " |
| 15 | The right of the painter to move around an object and combine various views of it into a single image , first stated in writing by Metzinger in 1910 and elaborated a few months later by Allard , was quickly adopted by most critics as a central feature of the style , and became related to the conceptual or intellectual aspect . |
| 16 | She was winding one end of it into a little ball . |
| 17 | " En vacances " was a short exercise which involved the location of information and incorporating some of it into a letter to be written in French , using a word processor . |
| 18 | He still stays in a church house and has converted part of it into a chapel , where he celebrates mass for 200 people every Sunday . |
| 19 | none of it towards a survey like , productive towards a survey |
| 20 | Since then , techniques such as seismic surveys , mechanised geochemical analysis , and isotopic research , have become available , and the theoretical framework of research in these geologically interesting areas has provided the potential for a great deal of re-interpretation , some of it of a fundamental nature , contributing to theoretical developments in geology . |
| 21 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 22 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 23 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 24 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 25 | ‘ I think of it as a stuffy old family that wants to celebrate the birthday of an aged aunt . |
| 26 | Just think of it as a loss leader and keep your fingers crossed . |
| 27 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |
| 28 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 29 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 30 | Or rather , they would now be on their way back , since they had decided ( Franca could imagine the little conversation , she thought of it as a ‘ little ’ conversation ) to stay away only one night , instead of the three nights originally planned . |