Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | If you are a supplier of goods or services where turnover exceeds the current registration threshold you have to charge VAT and account for it to Customs and Excise . |
2 | But Mr Westbrook adds : ‘ There are occasions when we might invoice a customer in Austrian schillings , bank it in a DM bank account and yet account for it in sterling . ’ |
3 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
4 | Listen to what people say about it in these magazines . ’ |
5 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
6 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
7 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
8 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
9 | It includes the presence of other animals that may be predators or competitors for food , animals of other species that may communicate with it in finding food or raising an alarm , and individuals of its own species that interact with it in many ways , competitively , nepotistically , and in co-operation . |
10 | Particularly er children or animals who have no say in it at all , we , we take the view that er it 's a family show and we take that responsibility very carefully and very seriously . |
11 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
12 | Their excellent long-distance vision spots something suspicious and they fly to it at high speed . |
13 | Eight years later the Comte de Lambert — one of Europe 's pioneer aeronauts — drew a crowd of 20,000 to watch him fly over it in one of France 's earliest aeroplanes . |
14 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
15 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
16 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
17 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
18 | As Mr Michael Dukakis found to his cost in 1988 , voters equate opposition to the death penalty with being soft on crime , support for it with being tough . |
19 | Thus , despite widespread support for a National Government , there was little idea of how such a government might be brought about ; and little support for it among those who really mattered . |
20 | And children walk through it to schools which now lack even the most basic equipment . |
21 | I cut through it on each side and did the same to the binding on his ankles . |
22 | And it 's erm it 's so oppressive and we really worry about it with the children . |
23 | It occurred to me that you might plan it as one great central shed with bays let off it on each side . |
24 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
25 | Pau retains a circle of Anglophiles who cherish the British connection and speak of it with affectionate admiration — not the most widespread of French responses to us . |
26 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
27 | Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it . |
28 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
29 | You walk to it along the foot of the gorge , through tunnels at one point , and then climb about twelve pitches that are never harder than HVS . |
30 | Probable sad answer : cling to it as part of Britain 's eccentric genius . |