Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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31 It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring .
32 Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter .
33 We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union .
34 Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television .
35 • Your complexion deserves make-up which not only improves its appearance but also cares for it throughout the day , so RoC 's foundations are designed to do just that .
36 Similarly , unless it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances , a firm must not , in any written communication or agreement , seek to exclude or restrict : ( 1 ) Any other duty to act with skill , care and diligence which is owed to a private customer in connection with the provision to him of investment services in the course of regulated business ; or ( 2 ) Any liability owed to a private customer in connection with regulated business for failure to exercise the degree of skill , care and diligence that may reasonably be expected of it in the provision of investment services in the course of that business .
37 Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould .
38 Some of those pigments presumably behaved in the way that melanin behaves in human skin , absorbing solar energy , disposing of it through the body as heat .
39 By convention , the government of the day resigns or requests a dissolution if a motion of no confidence is carried against it in the House of Commons .
40 The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside .
41 You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place .
42 But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture .
43 But if a little exercise is desired , first cross the bridge on the Tan Hill road and follow a path upriver along the edge of cliffs and descend to another bridge to regain the Birkdale road , returning along it past the Force .
44 While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance .
45 Abolition of the Southern League also robbed players of a useful safety valve , for no transfer fee was payable when a player moved into it from the League .
46 Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side .
47 She 'd been pressured into it by the situation .
48 As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house .
49 Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships .
50 Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray .
51 Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks .
52 And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ?
53 It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years .
54 As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered .
55 But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’
56 If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent .
57 Prestel can now be accessed through the set or via a microcomputer and modem located beside it in the Community Information section in the library .
58 The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy .
59 It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section .
60 ‘ I believe , ’ said the commissioner who reported on it to the Health of Towns Commission in 1845 ,
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