Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] it the " in BNC.

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1 THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch .
2 Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair .
3 But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ?
4 Shame on the Ordnance Survey for giving it the name of Ingleborough Hill on some of their maps : it is every inch a mountain and , although not the highest in England as was once thought and is overtopped by many others , one of the grandest .
5 I 'm sure that e e if there is an easy way of doing it the Conservatives would have found out and done it .
6 " The extension of majority voting will be examined … together with the possibility of making it the general rule with a limited number of exceptions . "
7 To enhance the standing of a particular religion or religious tradition by making it the mother of science may be short-sighted in at least two other respects .
8 A WOMAN saved her guide dog from certain death by giving it the kiss of life .
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