Example sentences of "[prep] it [to-vb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach .
2 The debris included empty wine bottles , food wrappers , part of a loaf of bread so hard the sparrows would bend their beaks , and a half-empty tin of baked beans with enough penicillin growing in it to supply most of Soho for a year .
3 According to SunSelect , the Windows Sockets applications programming interface will en-able Windows applications written to it to run unmodified over any TCP/IP network .
4 Continue along the coast soon keeping to left of lighthouse buildings at St Abb 's Head ; briefly join lighthouse road , but it is best almost immediately to divert off it to rejoin cliff-top for sea views .
5 Bob Collicutt acknowledges that he is presiding over a mature , commodity business with limited growth opportunities , but sees the free-standing role as an opportunity for it to remain profitable in the longer term .
6 However , the company 's spec calls for it to support six to eight P5s which it says should be capable of 250 transactions a second .
7 However , it seems plausible that this source of energy has been of little importance in the past because Jupiter is so very massive that it probably formed very hot , though Jupiter may now be sufficiently cool for helium separation to have recently become significant , or for it to become significant in the relatively near future .
8 Jumping spiders , on the other hand , stalk their prey or perhaps stay hidden and wait for it to pass close by .
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