Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A defence lawyer described it as ‘ a very tragic case ’ . |
| 2 | The aspirations of a record company go towards mass hysteria but I do n't think The Wedding Present see it in those terms . |
| 3 | The plan is to buy the school from the council and then apply for a governmnet grant to run it like other opted out schools . |
| 4 | Usually the hermit crab utilises a discarded whelk or winkle shell to protect it from predators , but when none is available a plastic jar will do . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The wind was tugging at her hair , the setting sun turning it to false and fleeting gold . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The slim-bodied design of the Cut Saw enables it to be used right up to walls or floors , so protruding pipes , etc , can be sawn off almost flush , especially if a slightly flexible blade is used . |
| 9 | At 10 or 11 , I read On The Beach , Neville Shute 's book ; I thought it was frightening , so he called in an air force general to explain it to me . |
| 10 | As Jim Perrin almost explained in his highly perceptive and barely obscure September piece , today 's rock climber does it for extrinsic reasons , creating a gulf between that activity and the intrinsic moves of the other mountain activities . |
| 11 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 12 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 13 | Added to this was the waxing of the fuselage interior to protect it from corrosion in the future . |
| 14 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 15 | Of course , in practice , things are more complicated , as the Moroccan Swasa saying has it on brothers running a grocer shop : |
| 16 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 17 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 18 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 19 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 20 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 21 | You can then either accept the SPR or ask a user with SPR SSR Controller privilege to force it onto a user . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | By the way , you do n't have to move the needles that were in non-working position on the main bed to working position before transferring — the rib transfer carriage does it for you . |
| 24 | The office was empty when Jay got in , and she slid her dream onto her desk with a work folder to hide it from Francis 's camp curiosity . |
| 25 | Did you ever hear the word stip Being used for a pole that was placed against a corn stack to keep it from |
| 26 | It was only when The Sun newspaper displayed it on a girl in a highly provocative pose that she realized how easily the purity of the image could be sullied . |
| 27 | As one law lord put it in 1967 , it can be ‘ very unpleasant ’ and ‘ hard ’ for the advocate ‘ to explain to a client why he is indulging in what seems treachery to his client because of an abstract duty to justice and professional honour ’ . |
| 28 | Now that 's all very well having one of those , if you 've got a nice solid wood door to fit it to , but if you 're looking at the new replacement P V C doors erm , afterwards you ca n't fit that type of lock because the actual structure of the door wo n't take it . |
| 29 | In both cases the RapidCad exhibited full IEEE compliance even though the Cyrix test program reported it as a 486 ! . |
| 30 | A die-hard SVR4 advocate , Tandem is interested in seeing its fault-tolerant enablers incorporated in the base operating system to save it from having to re-invent the wheel each time a revision is done and to allow it to focus on true value-added differentiators . |