Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each evening I reported to Anne , keeping it light for the most part . |
| 2 | Yeremi snatched it clear of the firing handle . |
| 3 | The National Executive Committee may , if it deems it necessary in the interests of the Labour Party , advise the Executive Committee of this party to select a nomination it may submit to it . |
| 4 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 5 | Press it flat with the seam you have sewn down the back of the head of the puppet . |
| 6 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 7 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 8 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 9 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |
| 10 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 11 | A dune had encroached onto the road and he was slicing away its tip , tossing it clear of the tarmac behind him . |
| 12 | Angrily she tore her hand away from Rune 's clasp and slammed it palm-down on the table . |
| 13 | It was left to Vineyard who put it wide of the post . |
| 14 | It came to Paul that he could watch it advancing from the roof of the hall . |
| 15 | Help us to cleanse it and hold it safe from the Godless forces of Communism that surround it and threaten it from within . |
| 16 | I picture it safe in the hands |
| 17 | Lawrence played it cagey after the goalless draw against Blackburn Rovers . |
| 18 | The effect of such an agreement between a creditor and a third party with regard to the debt is to render it impossible for the creditor afterwards to sue the debtor for it . |
| 19 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 20 | Instead , the definition of democracy itself has been revised , adapted , narrowed and diluted to render it compatible with the persisting belief in the necessity or the virtue of rule by elites , with an equally persistent mistrust of " the masses " and , perhaps most important of all , to render it compatible with the existing political systems of the Western world which call themselves " democracies " . |
| 21 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 22 | Volkswagen , which helped develop the smaller Eurobag specifically for smaller cars , introduced the Eurobag as optional equipment on the Golf last year and has now made it available on the Passat saloon as well . |
| 23 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 24 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 25 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 26 | The ferocity of the piranha fish has made it famous throughout the world . |
| 27 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 28 | The contracting system to which my hon. Friend referred has made it possible for the health authority to provide extra capacity for the specialty at Exeter hospital which will ensure that the waiting list can be worked off much more quickly than would otherwise be possible . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that the further substantial increase in the NHS 's capital budget in the next financial year has made it possible for the health authority and the Ministry of Defence to come to an agreement on that issue . |
| 30 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |