Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cheap land prices in the region , offering poor cash returns , have also deterred the agent taking it under its wing . |
| 9 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He did that several times until he had established the depth to reach the lock and bolt and he now knew a single spring-loaded tumbler holding it in place . |
| 18 | He picked the largest , his spear taking it through the gut . |
| 19 | ‘ I want a clean up , not a snakesiren making it with a mongoose on my face . ’ |
| 20 | Motif is prime for the fast track though it will require minor work integrating it into XPG . |
| 21 | Screens were placed along the length of the hall dividing it into four aisles , leaving spaces at either end and a way through to the Law Courts , which at that time were on the west side of the hall . |
| 22 | So , rather than holding it in front of you as in the carve gybe , you deliberately lose the power from the rig by oversheeting ad leaning it towards the wave . |
| 23 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 24 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 25 | And then wherever you 've got rid of conductance think well they have n't given me that , they 've given me resistance , oh I had to write one over resistance turning it into conductance . |
| 26 | I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman has said , because it enables me to explain that proposals for a local income tax relating it to ability to pay have been rejected in Committee and on Report , so we are now in the business of trying to improve this unfair tax which is based on property . |
| 27 | One of the two largest owls of the region , an enormous , almost eagle-sized bird , the prominent ear-tufts and facial disc distinguishing it from all diurnal birds of prey . |
| 28 | In order to put this over sympathetically to consumers , the Central Authority issued a directive enforcing it on Area Boards : thus underlining the absolute necessity for this increase . |
| 29 | The Government has insisted that apple juice is safe to drink following the scare linking it with cancer . |
| 30 | It also reached out into the social and anthropological fields , and indeed a special journal linking it with linguistics was founded as early as 1859 . |