Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She threw the ball across the lawn and the cat bounded after it over the frosted grass , the muscles rippling under the black sheen of his coat . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , ’ he says , then smashes the ball off the 15th tee , up over the hill and goes running after it down the other side . |
| 3 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 4 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 5 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 6 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 7 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 8 | The alternative is to scare off the enemy and this is done by inflating the body and raising the rear end of it towards the approaching assailant . |
| 9 | It is the decisions , the policies , the judgement , motives , principles and ambitions , the skill and lack of it of the leading political actors which are decisive . |
| 10 | Central to those ideals had been — at least since 1922 when Tawney published his Secondary Education for All — the extension of secondary schooling ( although , less precisely , not all of it of the grammar-school variety ) to the whole of the population . |
| 11 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |
| 12 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 13 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 14 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 15 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 16 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 17 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 18 | As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition . |
| 19 | The answer to that question , and the implications of it for the British polity of the 1980s , will form the basis of the final chapter . |
| 20 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 21 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 23 | In short , it may be illuminating to start with the damage and work back through the cause of it to the possible duty which may have been broken . |
| 24 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 25 | When I reached the House of Andrus I spoke of it to the other women and we said a prayer . |
| 26 | Then , bracing herself , she strode to the top of the staircase and stood gazing down the wide , sweeping curve of it to the imposing hallway and the big front door . |
| 27 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 28 | Sift the flour and ground rice together and add one third of it to the creamed mixture . |
| 29 | Hendrique , using two paper napkins to protect his hands , removed the strip light from its socket on the ceiling of the carriage directly above the table then unravelled a length of flex and secured the two crocodile clips at the end of it to the respective overhead power points . |
| 30 | When an order has been made , the district judge sends a copy of it to the Senior Master of the Supreme Court , Queen 's Bench Division , for transmission to the Registrar of the European Court . |