Example sentences of "[prep] it [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 2 | Carrie tried to mop up the mess with the edge of the table cloth and put a mat under the worst of it to stop the damp marking the table , but her hands seemed all thumbs and she could n't stop crying . |
| 3 | Happy when they were together , when she was left alone she fretted , missing his presence and the way the light moved round his body as he enthusiastically used every inch of it to express the slightest emotion . |
| 4 | He hung his chosen shirt on the front of the wardrobe , and slid back the mirror-door behind it to put the other away . |
| 5 | He said that a solid body moving through a fluid medium such as air was in fact propelled by the air , which was cleft by the moving body and then rejoined behind it to provide the forward drive , for there could be no such thing as a vacuum , that is , mere nothingness . |
| 6 | He contests that petty commodity production is a separate mode of production from the capitalist one , but that it articulates with it to facilitate the expanded reproduction of the capitalist mode ( Quijano 1974 ) . |
| 7 | Given the establishment of this joint working party , it would appear both reasonable and sensible for the APB 's Going Concern Task Force to work with it to establish the necessary guidance on what disclosures should be made , and then to incorporate it . |
| 8 | As he bent tenderly over it to examine the flattened tyres , a hand stuck a length of rubber piping out of the wash-room window and directed a jet of water down his neck . |
| 9 | Now he looked up , and Lachlan was hard put to it to meet the bitter glare . |
| 10 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 11 | The meeting blamed the ANC for the violence in Natal , calling on it to abandon the so-called " armed struggle " ; furthermore , it urged the ANC deputy president , Nelson Mandela " to accept [ Buthelezi 's ] repeated invitation to sit down with him and to talk peace " . |
| 12 | Preferring to carry only a light rifle , such as a .22 , and ammunition , but unburdened by other supplies , even water , they chase goats from about 7 am until noon , when they have to quit for the day Sometimes they will put down their guns and stalk a goat , leaping on it to deliver the final coup de grace with a knife . |
| 13 | I 've already earmarked the cage drilling machine just in case we did require it , to make sure that no parts were taken off it to support the next one . |
| 14 | The first is a highly fortuitous and austere way : namely that the compound might have the same effect — the transfer of some particular kind of information — sufficiently often and sufficiently advantageously for there to be some selective advantage in its coming standardly to possess that significance : that is , for it to acquire the biological function of transmitting just that kind of information . |
| 15 | This makes it very hard for it to pursue the traditional answer to a slump of ‘ pump priming ’ spending more on job creating projects like roads and railways . |
| 16 | Yet probably The Rock relies on a form too close to extinction at the time for it to bring the whole revue to life . |
| 17 | He has persuaded the new Armed Forces minister , Jeremy Hanley , to see a delegation next week to hear Chester 's case for it to have the new centralised pay and personnel centre . |
| 18 | It has been more difficult for it to investigate the non-physical nature of prehistoric society . |
| 19 | Thus , the more mobile a dipolar group , the easier it is for it to follow the electric field up to higher frequencies , whereas the less mobile groups can only orient at lower frequencies . |
| 20 | Because it is so rare , most people simply do not know enough about it to avoid the worst of the disease . |