Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party yesterday elected the former prime minister , Mr Ladislav Adamec , as chairman to guide it through free elections due within six months . |
| 2 | Instead , gipsies will be encouraged to BUY land and apply for permission to turn it into a site . |
| 3 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
| 4 | Hearing Ginsberg 's tumultuous reading of Howl spurred Lawrence Ferlinghetti to ask for permission to publish it under his City Lights imprint in San Francisco . |
| 5 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 6 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 7 | Ana had loved the carving and Maggie had not been able to wait until after dinner to give it to her . |
| 8 | Its hard , tight-fitting husks act as armour to protect it from pests and diseases — a boon to farmers who do not want to use pesticides . |
| 9 | But it is still too early to be certain , and the jury must remain out until there is sufficient evidence of a true change of heart to distinguish it from the earnest gestures of political expediency . |
| 10 | Carnelian , spying through the eye-screen from wherever , had immediately begun withdrawing the hydra into the warp of Chaos to save it from extinction . |
| 11 | Also joining IHM is the one-off prototype Westland 30–300 G–HAUL , which has been in storage at Westland 's Yeovil factory since the Ministry of Defence cancelled it in favour of the larger EH–101 . |
| 12 | This view of physics sees it as a body of knowledge , or a system , which can explain all other bodies of knowledge . |
| 13 | I take his point about maintenance and I shall of course draw it to the Housing Executive 's attention . |
| 14 | ‘ Double Cutaway ’ sounds a little plain Jane , but the owner could of course christen it with whatever apt title came to mind . |
| 15 | So net debt is two sixty four million er and therefore the pro forma debt equity ratio 's halved from fifty seven percent to twenty eight percent we do of course expect it to be somewhat lower by the year end as our working capital which is coming to its peak season , unwinds . |
| 16 | We of course did it in nineteen eighty six , er but this year there are about fifteen hundred officers involved from fifteen different police forces . |
| 17 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 18 | The application of previously defined style or property sheets to large amounts of text allows it to be rapidly converted from one form into another , merely by adjusting the rules written into the style sheet . |
| 19 | Oldfield 's marriage lasted for just two weeks , requiring lawyers and a large sum of money to bring it to a conclusion satisfactory to the bride . |
| 20 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 21 | One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak . |
| 22 | In such a way a child 's promptness might save a soul from the long blankness of Limbo , or a child 's inattention or failure of nerve condemn it to years of the deadliest waiting until the day of Judgement , held still in the amber of the centuries . |
| 23 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 24 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 25 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 26 | And the partnership 's life is a short as a task completed or as long as a connected , improving spiral of programme sustains it through renewal . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | My conception of sport elevates it to the realms of art , where the producer finds room to express himself and the consumer studies and appreciates ; both seek satisfaction . |
| 29 | One coach only needs a small amount of work to restore it to its original condition , but the other requires extensive work . |
| 30 | The general purpose database manager like SUPERFILE , needs a bit of work to configure it to your own particular needs . |