Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It 's got a bad reputation , we associate it with old age , the truth is , man loses his hair because he 's got too much male testosterone and he loses it because he 's got a sex drive like a rampant rhino . |
| 32 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 33 | showing us that Pip is entering the cold , real world and has left the warmth of Joe 's forge and his chance for contentment , trading it for social status . |
| 34 | The problem is to provide it with updated forecast data ’ . |
| 35 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
| 36 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 37 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 38 | The detainer is liable for any damage caused to the livestock by failure to treat it with reasonable care and supply it with adequate food and water . |
| 39 | Another stimulus to the market has come from issuers buying back bonds , to retire the debt entirely or swap it for new equity . |
| 40 | You can brown it in hot fat beforehand if you really want to . |
| 41 | X owned an ox which , while his servants were driving it with due care through a town , entered the shop of Y , an ironmonger , through an open door . |
| 42 | For example , those with characteristically straight hair which has a tendency to greasiness and lankiness would choose the mild Body Building Shampoo to gently purify the hair without stripping it of essential moisture , and the Body Building Conditioner to replenish thirsty hair strands without weighing them down . |
| 43 | Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting . |
| 44 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 45 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 46 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 47 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 48 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 49 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 50 | If you 're planning a formal herb patch , do n't edge it with conventional box — use edible plants instead ( above ) . |
| 51 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 52 | He pushed the invitation over to her : she regarded it with mock distaste . |
| 53 | Nevertheless , there are many things about the Demoiselles that serve to relate it to other painting of the period and , more particularly , to the contemporary work of Matisse . |
| 54 | I , I found it with utmost ease . |
| 55 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 56 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 57 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 58 | Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality . |
| 59 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 60 | If bandage-type insulation is used , start at the tank and tie the first wrap , pressing it in close contact with the tank |