Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good example of this is a rose : in order to press it successfully , you have to dismantle it petal by petal , and when you are re-assembling it you really only need half the amount of petals , so you can create two roses from one original flower . |
| 2 | I used to find it kind of funny . |
| 3 | Press reports suggest that the new DOS will include a revised boot procedure , allowing you to bypass CONFIG.SYS to process it line by line . |
| 4 | We , we tackled it without putting a great lot on the rates , we were a , we were able to tackle it year by year by altering some of the rooms . |
| 5 | The sheet had embroidery in gold around its border , and Turakina began to inspect it section by section , snipping at loose threads or stitching them down . |
| 6 | You 're expecting them to remember it word for word as though it you know it 's ingrained on their soul almost and ca n't |
| 7 | He has to relearn it stage by stage , building up his awareness through experience , in much the same way as a child learns about putting on clothes by himself . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's something I need to say to you , Dad , and I 'll never have the courage to do it face to face . |
| 9 | I mean if you think about it it was just an impossible task to do it sort of fairly or so that everybody felt all right about it and also that you know if it 's your own children you 're having to choose presents you know the who whole idea was sort of very very difficult really . |
| 10 | Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ? |
| 11 | ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . ) |
| 12 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the credit arm is shifting to plc status , as a full Ford subsidiary , to give it access to a wider choice of borrowing sources and ‘ to offer more competitive interest rates ’ , says Chairman Alec Murray . |
| 14 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 15 | He began to read it page by page , showing amusement , but remaining on my side of the counter . |
| 16 | Charles of France might shrink from fomenting a direct war , but he would be glad to use every oblique weapon against the upstart king who had deposed his son-in-law , and sent his little widowed daughter back in clumsy state , but without her dowry , which had been fed of necessity into King Henry 's treasury to keep it solvent during his first year of kingship . |
| 17 | To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income . |
| 18 | Read through your full speech several times , preferably aloud and preferably into a tape-recorder , but do not try to memorise it word for word . |
| 19 | As a result , it is not easy to arrive it conclusions about the reasons for population trends during the inter-war years . |
| 20 | Will he continue to allow it flexibility in respect of other markets ? |
| 21 | He grew used to her absence , thought of nothing but his book , and decided to call it Principles of the Real . |
| 22 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
| 23 | I had to wear it back to front for the photographer . |
| 24 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 25 | But eh , you 'd have to have it sort of written out and more or less ready I think to go . |
| 26 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now has a second chance to get it Wright for England ! |
| 27 | The simplest way in which these changes may be projected through time is to take the total population at a given instant and to alter it year by year ( or by some other period of time ) according to a chosen assumption about future growth or decline . |
| 28 | He seemed to think it evidence of a malignant fate that he had had the misfortune to link himself to a succession of mad women . |
| 29 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 30 | Well I think we 've got to take it section by section . |