Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 2 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 3 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 4 | But that Monday 's Panorama programme revealed it as a piece of lunacy under definite consideration . |
| 5 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 6 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 7 | At first the club treated it as a private matter and The Doc shook hands on a new four year contract . |
| 8 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 9 | The President condemned it as a " taxpayer-financed incumbent protection plan " . |
| 10 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 11 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 12 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 13 | The test of its validity is whether the subjects of the research accept it as a true account of their way of life . |
| 14 | They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape . |
| 15 | The social stigma of alcoholism sees it as a disgrace rather than a disease that is beyond the control of the sufferer and for this reason ( and their own " denial " — which will be explained later ) friends and family may be reluctant to accept the true nature of the diagnosis . |
| 16 | The infliction of pain upon a horse affects it in a very profound way . |
| 17 | And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology . |
| 18 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 19 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 20 | Like Grisone , they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it ! |
| 21 | It was closed in 1782 , after which there was an attempt to convert it into a Pantheon for the new Italy . |
| 22 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 23 | Some places welcomed Julian 's pagan revival ; others , including some large and important cities , were much less enthusiastic about his attempt to reimpose it after a generation of rule by Christian emperors . |
| 24 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 25 | Developers could use the tool in-house , at the expense of buying a target machine , currently an RS/6000 , or have Echo do it as a service . |
| 26 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 27 | Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame . |
| 28 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 29 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 30 | CPRW believes this review provides it with a major opportunity to influence the Board 's future direction . |