Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interior Ministry troops , who had come under fire from rooftop snipers , later succeeded in throwing a cordon around the CP headquarters to protect it from further attack , but Moscow radio reports said that by the evening of Feb. 13 the violence had spread from the city centre to numerous locations in the suburbs , and that automatic gunfire could be heard . |
| 2 | The BBC subsequently bought the broadcasting rights to the play and commissioned David Whitaker to adapt it for Television . |
| 3 | Leroy May sliced a low ball across the Barnet goal , only for Richard Huxford to deflect it past his own keeper . |
| 4 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 5 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 6 | The rank is unique to the RUC , and a proposal by Sir Hugh to abolish it in a restructuring package he put to the Police Authority two years ago caused anger within senior members of the force . |
| 7 | The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 . |
| 8 | ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger . |
| 9 | ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ Or trying to persuade Mrs Abberley to keep it to yourselves ? ’ |
| 11 | I 'd like Mrs Perks to have it for her little boy . |
| 12 | The Institute should be sponsoring its own research in this area and encouraging UK companies to try it for themselves . |
| 13 | Marie McKnight , who prepared their submission , can not be here and has delegated OLIVER KEARNEY to present it for her . |
| 14 | It is her garden that now absorbs much of C.Z. 's time and it was a logical step for Bowles and photographer Pamela Hanson to use it as a setting for their fashion story ( p 162 ) , highlighting some of the key ideas for the season . |
| 15 | Seven years ago , she had allowed a man from Christ Church to do it to her on a sofa during a Commem ball , and really she had not liked it . |
| 16 | Booms stayed on standby at the mouth of the Hamble River to protect it from the slick . |
| 17 | Jukes could only parry May 's blockbuster at the foot of the post and the alert Deighan squared the ball back in for Steve Stairs to force it over the line . |
| 18 | Its suspected health hazards , such as cancer and nervous disorders , led the US government to suspend it in 1974 . |
| 19 | If I could convince Bill Gates to include it with DOS ( no chance ! ) it would suddenly become a DOS command . |
| 20 | This is called the Richardson number ( sometimes the gradient form of the Richardson number to distinguish it from other forms defined somewhat differently ) . |
| 21 | But it was their home … inviting Guy Sterne to use it as a convenient guest-house was like flinging open the drawbridge to the enemy … |
| 22 | Dintenfass , uptown , has invited artists from the P.P.O.W. gallery to join it in a show called simply ‘ VOTE ! ’ |
| 23 | All the preparations , all the propaganda , had led them to expect Herr Hitler to start it with a bang , an airborne cataclysm , probably with fire and with deadly gas . |
| 24 | Incidentally , how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you ? |
| 25 | He had his living to make and he came to Port Talbot to make it as a teacher . |