Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 2 | In the 1930s , when the Japanese perceived that the Americans , British , Chinese and Dutch , were threatening their supplies of oil and raw materials they coined the term ‘ ABCD encirclement ’ , and used it eventually as an excuse to start the Pacific War . |
| 3 | Golf was mine , though I often found it more of an aggravation than a relaxation . |
| 4 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 5 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 6 | They would n't do it again in an 'urry . ’ |
| 7 | Knowing that the opening of a cup is round , it is false to depict it simply as an ellipse ; ideally the object is shown as a combination of plan , section and elevation . |
| 8 | Watkins engineering , at Sling , had a novel way of getting rid of industrial toxic waste — tip it away down an old mine shaft . |
| 9 | The Marshal would see it only as an attempt to get back at Ebert . |
| 10 | THE Scottish National Party yesterday foreshadowed its campaign for next year 's European elections , in an effort to raise Scots ' confidence in going it alone as an independent nation . |
| 11 | When the race starts on Sunday eighty sailors will be going it alone in an assortment of vessels . |
| 12 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 13 | ‘ Madge brought the material back from Vienna the last time she went on a buying trip — it is not part of the Luxembourg budget , I hasten to add and , wonderful creature that she is , she threw it together on an evening when Wardrobe were n't using one of their machines . ’ |
| 14 | ( Laughter ) I mean , we accept it now as an everyday thing . |
| 15 | We 'll use it just as an exercise again . |
| 16 | By all means practise side-slipping at height , but do n't assume that because you can do it at height you will be able to do it accurately on an approach . |
| 17 | Sow it now in an open , sunny position . |
| 18 | Alfie Stewart cleared it off the line , but only into the path of Johnny Jameson who steered it home from an acute angle . |
| 19 | She was becoming excited by what she was getting , she could develop it later into an almost sculptural grouping of their limbs and heads , when the third Panther broke from his two companions and came striding towards her . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , there 's the holes where it was unscrewed before they brought it here for an altar . |
| 21 | If one accepts that comparable hypotheses may explain differential phenomenology ( such as the different experiences of motion-perception previously described ) , then his work shows that it is in principle possible for a creature incapable of experiencing distinct shapes to be aware of motion and to ascribe it correctly to an individual object . |
| 22 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 23 | Learning among native speakers , you start to see it more like an enormously complex song : even if you do n't know all the melody and lyrics , the rhythm comes through . |
| 24 | Its declared aim was to preserve a family name by attaching it perpetually to an estate that passed undivided to a single heir . |
| 25 | When the first draft was published in October 1988 , the Commission presented it more as an EC contribution to wider European agreement on patent law , seeking uniform protection for what Brussels termed ‘ inventions in biotechnology ’ , rather than an attempt to create an ethical framework . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm showing it tonight to an audience of businessmen , and I always get red-hot when I watch this kind of thing . |
| 27 | I always keep a bottle in my desk drawer , but this character was putting it away on an industrial scale . |
| 28 | Remove any existing weather bar by prising it away with an old chisel |
| 29 | Cunningham slowly removed the cigar from his mouth and propped it carefully in an ashtray . |
| 30 | Ten-year-old Luke Johnson dug it up and thinking it was ‘ dead ’ , planned to take it home as an ornament . |