Example sentences of "[noun] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the young woman let her tie the grizzling baby into the bath-chair and wheel it around the courtyard to look at the hens . |
| 2 | As you will have observed , your wife was not pleased to see me ; she remained impatient of my attentions throughout , and the only prof it from the visit is my own . |
| 3 | I mean it was unbelievable , it was uncanny , because all they had done at A T F was , you know , gear it on the pantograph and there was no redrawing or adjustment whatsoever . |
| 4 | ‘ Funny things , are n't they ? ’ holding it to the light , checking the measure before giving it to Rosen . |
| 5 | I 'll second it for the time being . |
| 6 | If you find some if you realize you 've bought something and it 's faulty return it to the shop who sold it to you as soon as you can . |
| 7 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
| 8 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 9 | while we sleeve it into the sail . |
| 10 | And the day before his weakness waxed great , he ordered the gates of the town to be shut , and went to the Church of St. Peter ; and there the Bishop Don Hieronymo being present , and all the clergy who were in Valencia , and the knights and honourable men and honourable dames , as many as the Church could hold , the Cid Ruydiez stood up , and made a full noble preaching , showing that no man whatsoever , however honourable or fortunate they may be in this world , can escape death ; to which , said he , I am now full near ; and since ye know that this body of mine hath never yet been conquered , nor put to shame , I beseech ye let not this befall it at the end , for the good fortune of man is only accomplished at his end . |
| 11 | If you are interested in enrolling in Business Direct , or wish any of your staff to enrol , please complete the attached application form and post it to the address shown or take it to your local Midland branch . |
| 12 | I went to post it in the index book I 've got it 's stopped it 's been in |
| 13 | It looked as if Berowne had clutched it as he fell , half-pulling it from the bed , so that it lay partly bunched at his right side . |
| 14 | Mash it or purée it in the blender with an equal quantity of fresh unsalted butter . |
| 15 | Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table . |
| 16 | To ‘ bastard trench ’ , take out the top spit of the first trench and barrow it to the end of the digging area . |
| 17 | Pressing Enter pastes it to the Clipboard or you can use the Edit , Copy command . |
| 18 | As the slack came in , he got one of the uniformed men to cut the line away from Gomez 's legs and retie it to the line on the rod . |
| 19 | If the compost heap seems dry , water it with the hose and cover with old carpet to speed up the natural rotting process . |
| 20 | Our impact on industry through our green works campaign is there for all to see and from that point of view to encase it within the health and safety review is vitally important for all of us when we take the policy back to our members and advise them of the way in which we intend to go forward . |
| 21 | Room rates are stored in the computer 's memory and when the cashier enters the room rate code and presses the room rate look-up key ; the terminal locates the rate in its memory , prints it on the folio and updates the totals . |
| 22 | Every so often the animal would rear , lashing out with his sharpened hooves , as the men struggled with a stream of oaths to back it into the stable . |
| 23 | That break and special tie it at the back of there ? |
| 24 | In an interview soon after his appointment as Director General , Joe Pilling , a senior civil servant , was quoted as saying that the transformation of the Prison Service into an executive agency would help to distance it from the Home Office and achieve greater operational freedom , adding : |
| 25 | Brewers may thus formulate a character and emphasis it in the beer . |
| 26 | To hold an anti-contraceptive view is one thing , but to enshrine it in the law of the land is another . |
| 27 | ‘ Better high-tail it to the mikveh , ’ I jeer . |
| 28 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 29 | You might as well take money and shovel it down the drain . |
| 30 | The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay . |