Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 3 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 4 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 5 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 6 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 7 | You ca n't defy the world as you can your parents ; you have to work with it a little — and be polite to it . ’ |
| 8 | When the bombs fell in the autumn the intellectuals were quick to celebrate the initiative and self-generated activity of the common people , and to discover within it a basis for a new reconciliation between patriotism and democracy . |
| 9 | Nothing , however , can detract from the miracle that , on Christmas Day 1973 , people who lived in a state of enmity with one another on each side of the peace-line were strangely drawn together , jointly to celebrate the Christmas story and to find in it a message of love and forgiveness and of reconciliation . |
| 10 | In arguing this he not only collapses the specificity of consumption but also misrepresents the relationship between the ‘ individual ’ and the ‘ social ’ in Marx 's argument , for it is not for the individual consumer to recognize himself in another individual 's product anyway , but to recognize the socially-imprinted character and meaning of the product … and so to find in it the satisfaction of ‘ need ’ ( ibid : 30 ) . |
| 11 | We had to work on it a great deal . |
| 12 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 13 | His wife rolled her eyes rather and murmured , ‘ And I get to hear about it every day , ’ as her husband hastened away to show us his computer print-out from the medical laboratory . |
| 14 | To belong to it a man had to be ‘ someone ’ , a person who counted as an individual , because of his wealth , his capacity to command other men , or otherwise to influence them . |
| 15 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 16 | And he 'd have to look at it every day . |
| 17 | Please , try to look at it the way I have to — you must know that it 's an important matter because of Michel 's divorce ; if it were known , if it could be proved , that he is , ’ Flavia looked at Andrée and continued firmly , ‘ living with my mother , the divorce could still be stopped . |
| 18 | and er I would like to make an appointment to come and see you er again next week to talk over this mortgage and to go into it a bit more |
| 19 | Each child was given a present and to go with it a box of sweets . |
| 20 | Both in popular accounts and in much social science literature , the image of a peaceful society seems to carry with it a number of associated conceptions : co-operation , communalism , absence of self-interest , and so on . |
| 21 | The flamboyant ritual celebration of male bellicosity and the male collectivity among the Shavante appears to carry with it a corresponding devaluation of women , and indeed to be built upon it . |
| 22 | Glen volunteered to supervise the distribution of his work in Persia , and to circulate with it a new edition of the Persian translation of the New Testament by Henry Martyn [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | As I was sending a copy of the new book to all those slimmers who were mentioned in the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet , I decided to include with it a second questionnaire . |
| 24 | It is fortunately in the hands of such a man as Captain Vidal , R.N. , who has steadily devoted himself , during a long period of ill-health , to complete this unpopular work , and to connect with it a minute examination of the Canary Islands . ’ |
| 25 | This section is personal to me and contains titles I want to recommend , but in October I am forced to put into it a book I absolutely detest . |
| 26 | Insecurity must have something to do with it an insecurity about the musical self-sufficiency of absolute melody , so foreign to our modern western way of musical thinking , compounded by the performer 's fear of standing before an audience with no instrument and no accompaniment to hide behind or use as a prop … |
| 27 | It did not of course escape Mommsen that there can hardly be a more foolish political speculation , " eine thorichtere politische Spekulation " , than to represent the Roman constitution as a mixed constitution and to derive from it the success of Rome ( Rom . |
| 28 | This would need to retain within it the unique legal function of Convocation which would be restricted to those at present eligible to exercise it , that is to graduates and staff alone . |
| 29 | express any dissatisfaction try to do in it a constructive and diplomatic way . |
| 30 | The traditional Keynesian view of the conduct of monetary policy has been to assign to it the role of interest rate and/or exchange rate stabilization . |