Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 2 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 3 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 4 | The Package Name and Issue fields are self explanatory , The Selection column shows how each package selects the package immediately below it in the structure ; ie. SELECTED , LATEST or PREFERRED . |
| 5 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 6 | ‘ One hundred and fifty miles , most of it over the sea . ’ |
| 7 | Finally , as this is the Christmas issue , I 'm finishing with a little quiz , which I hope you will find time to do just for the fun of it over the holiday . |
| 8 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |
| 9 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 10 | So , if I want to play a melody , I 'll think of it along the strings rather than across , to take advantage of that . |
| 11 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 12 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 13 | I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though . |
| 14 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 15 | He quickly wrote to London to apologise , and asked if he might use Dr. Watt 's " Short View of the Whole Scripture History " , asserting that " the author was a Dissenter , and the introduction of it into the School is not likely to create any fresh difficulty " . |
| 16 | To do well , you need to become sensitive both to surges of lift and to the feeling of flying out of it into the sink . |
| 17 | ‘ So why not bring a little of it into the office ? ’ |
| 18 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 19 | Wrapped up in it , like a cosy cocoon , she rolls around the stage , or strews parts of it across the floor only to sink to her knees in the middle of the pile . |
| 20 | And some of the newcomers have money to throw around , so I 'm not going to prevent them throwing some of it towards the hunt . |
| 21 | Erm was there any w part of it of the strike organized in the sense of you giving moral support within the lodge to people who were obviously wavering ? |
| 22 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 23 | The Conservative Party is as short of it as the Exchequer or the rest of us . |
| 24 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 25 | The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds . |
| 26 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
| 27 | Think of it as the woodworker 's equivalent to Dungeons and Dragons . |
| 28 | I always think of it as the engine-room of the house . |
| 29 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 30 | The current is you can think of it as the amount of water goes through , it 's actually the the current is the amount of electrons that get through in a second . |