Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 2 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 3 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 4 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 5 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 6 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 7 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 8 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 9 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 10 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 11 | It is only when we put to it the rude experimental question " where are you ? " that it is forced to make the sharp choice between those two possibilities . |
| 12 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 13 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 14 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 15 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 16 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 17 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 18 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 19 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 20 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 21 | We believe that the right way to deal with that offence is to build on the offence under the Theft Act 1968 — the taking and driving away — and add to it the aggravated offence covered in clause 1 . |
| 22 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 23 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 24 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 25 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 26 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 27 | This would need to retain within it the unique legal function of Convocation which would be restricted to those at present eligible to exercise it , that is to graduates and staff alone . |
| 28 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 29 | Verdun seized American imaginations as did the Battle of Britain in 1940 ; compared to it the titanic clash on the Somme was to arouse little interest . |
| 30 | You must not touch this curtain with your hand , but must lay on it the milk-white feather which the hen will give you , and the curtain will be opened silently , by unseen hands , and the doors beyond it will lie open , and you may come into the hall where you shall find what you shall find . ’ |