Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like CD-I , the system plugs directly into a television receiver and the CDTV user operates it with a remote , infra-red handset . |
| 2 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 3 | A defence lawyer described it as ‘ a very tragic case ’ . |
| 4 | The aspirations of a record company go towards mass hysteria but I do n't think The Wedding Present see it in those terms . |
| 5 | The plan is to buy the school from the council and then apply for a governmnet grant to run it like other opted out schools . |
| 6 | Usually the hermit crab utilises a discarded whelk or winkle shell to protect it from predators , but when none is available a plastic jar will do . |
| 7 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 8 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 9 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 10 | ‘ Guys come in with board injuries and they say , Johnny Boy did it to me . |
| 11 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 12 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The slim-bodied design of the Cut Saw enables it to be used right up to walls or floors , so protruding pipes , etc , can be sawn off almost flush , especially if a slightly flexible blade is used . |
| 14 | At 10 or 11 , I read On The Beach , Neville Shute 's book ; I thought it was frightening , so he called in an air force general to explain it to me . |
| 15 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 16 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 17 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 18 | Added to this was the waxing of the fuselage interior to protect it from corrosion in the future . |
| 19 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 20 | Of course , in practice , things are more complicated , as the Moroccan Swasa saying has it on brothers running a grocer shop : |
| 21 | Make your way to Cridmore Farm keeping it on your right . |
| 22 | During production , or soon afterwards , the Alexis Master adapted it for the use of St Christina of Markyate ( born c .1096 , q.v. ) by adding the Alexis and Emmaus drawings , intended to echo incidents in Christina 's own life . |
| 23 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 24 | ‘ The worshippers ’ he continued , ‘ are still regarded mainly as an audience but the house is manifestly a house of God ’ : Newman Hall intended it to be both a non-denominational centre and a ‘ Cathedral of Nonconformity ’ . |
| 25 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 26 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 27 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 28 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 29 | Bad news is that Robert Bosch GmbH said it planned to cut more than 1,000 jobs in its telecommunications division to take it to just over 37,000 ; 3,700 jobs went in 1992 . |
| 30 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |