Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 2 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 3 | She drove the corkscrew in , twisting it like a knife in an enemy , stretching her shoulders back and pulling , with no result . |
| 4 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 5 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 6 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 7 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 8 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 9 | Shortly after the appearance of the SL , Thorn EMI Lighting introduced the 2D by launching it with a range of fittings designed by Conran Associates . |
| 10 | The first step was to remove the sapling and replace it with a system of aluminium braces . |
| 11 | In conclusion , I ask is it sensible needlessly to destroy a system which provides the best standard of living for all its citizens on the African continent and replace it with a system which will bring misery in the short-term and has little proof that it will ever attain today 's standard of living in the long term ? |
| 12 | An ugly modern extension obscures part of the Godfrey building at present and Moran says his architectural consultants have advised him to apply for permission to remove it and replace it with a gatehouse . |
| 13 | I asked , and they said , ‘ Remove the disc and replace it with a piece of bone which we 'll take from your hip . ’ |
| 14 | Insiders at Westminster reported that the cabinet was poised to scrap the poll tax and replace it with a property tax . |
| 15 | First , to dismiss the large body of academic work on media influence , particularly with regard to the effects of violence , and replace it with a series of insinuations ( which are not backed up by hard evidence of any sort ) displays a breathtaking arrogance on the part of the writer . |
| 16 | Plans exist to log 250,000 hectares of virgin rainforest and replace it with a palm oil plantation , much of which will be worked by migrant labour from Indonesia 's main islands . |
| 17 | With capillary fittings you ca n't resolder a leaking joint because the pipe will contain some water , so remove the fitting using a blowtorch to melt the solder , and replace it with a compression joint . |
| 18 | There once was a plan to remove it and replace it with a television transmitting tower . |
| 19 | Replace it with a plastic one , but make sure you 'll be able to get it through to loft hatch . |
| 20 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 21 | The first phase of the research compares the way that expertise is learned in the normal way , with the way that a ‘ knowledge engineer ’ elicits an expert 's knowledge and transfers it to a computer programme . |
| 22 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 23 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 24 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 25 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 26 | I remember listening to all the music that was around at that time and understanding it with a naivety which I wish I still had sometimes , putting a band together when I was nine or ten and playing the talent show at grade school , writing songs and still having the godawful things around the house . |
| 27 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 28 | The movement , which covers Darlington , Richmondshire , Northallerton , Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , has acquired Harewood House in Darlington and intends opening it as a day hospice . |
| 29 | Microsoft Corp says it plans to lead a campaign against growing software piracy in Japan 's personal computer industry , opening it with a letter to 50 hardware manufacturers and 290 software vendors in Japan alerting them to the problem — the Japanese are generally law-abiding , but Microsoft suspects many are unaware they are doing anything wrong copying software . |
| 30 | But his full-bottomed wig he has kept in the hope that his barrister son , also Bernard , will one day need it as a QC . |