Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably an item so secret that they were even keeping it from Dr Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 2 | Events in a modern flat follow the schema according to which Cornford analyses Aristophanic comedy , relating it to fertility ritual . |
| 3 | If you have tried sprinkling it on breakfast cereal and weighed the quantity , you will have discovered that you get a large volume for a quarter of an ounce — just about as much as you can palatably add to a single portion of breakfast cereal , without beginning to think that you are eating a bowl of sawdust ! |
| 4 | Stupidly she had n't looked further than the retrieving of it and returning it to Jonas Hamilton . |
| 5 | Up to 30 armed men had commandeered a bus and were driving it towards Zanderij airport near the Surinamese capital , Paramaribo , according to Mr Haakmat . |
| 6 | The following day he would underline all three by driving it to Hurstdown Abbey . |
| 7 | Clutton-Brock ( 1974 ) , for example , using finer instruments and methods than the earlier work , and applying it to species contrasts , was able to show that differences between two colobus species living in the same forest were functions of their feeding ecology . |
| 8 | ‘ Really , it just follows the principles of long-term contract accounting , but we ought to be able to do it better than SSAP 9 practitioners because , while they apply the theory to a handful of different contracts , we are applying it to 20m policies . |
| 9 | This would generate the extra revenue needed to pay the higher cost of replacing nuclear energy with biomass , compared to replacing it with fossil fuels . |
| 10 | The Komsomol was to be split into republican bodies , and it was proposed to disband it , replacing it with youth wings of several parties and a non-political youth organization . |
| 11 | It 's no good just digging a big hole and filling it with acid soil ; the surrounding limey water soon seeps in . |
| 12 | It will be helping with localisation and pushing it on Apple Computer Inc 's Power Book line . |
| 13 | The group left the market with a 233p share offer valuing it at Pounds 77.4m . |
| 14 | Because I was writing it in R E |
| 15 | Therefore a law valid in SR can be generalized to apply in any accelerating frame by expressing it in tensor form . |
| 16 | French trappers adopted this name , translating it to Nez Percés , which has been corrupted in English to their modern name of Nez Perces , or simply Nez Perce . |
| 17 | Once the glue is dry you should place the photograph in the correct position , securing it with masking tape . |
| 18 | The chief executive of Merseytravel , which operates the service , emerged from a crisis meeting and conceded a crippling financial burden was forcing it to back closure plans . |
| 19 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a tradition in our home of setting up a little crib and surrounding it with Nativity figures . |
| 21 | Fleming set up a culture of the mould , and preserved the plate by fixing it in formalin vapour . |
| 22 | No one has yet solved the problem of what to do with it — turning it into glass chips is the latest idea , but engineers have to wait between 30 and 50 years until the waste has cooled down sufficiently enough for the process to take place . |
| 23 | ‘ No , I know he 's got a navy blue one but he was n't wearing it on Friday night . ’ |
| 24 | Castro scored a great propaganda victory as the official American role in training the exile force , and in providing it with air cover in unmarked planes , became clear . |
| 25 | Ferranti continued with presentations yesterday to the group of more than 10 companies believed to have expressed an interest in bidding for the company or providing it with equity capital . |
| 26 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 27 | The Nun 's Priest ends his tale with a direction to the reader/listener , purportedly indicating what they must do : and supporting it with St Paul 's dictum : In the Nun 's Priest 's Tale this is no simple directive , finally defining the purpose of a tale which the narrator has introduced as a " " myrie " " ( " merry " ) exercise , and which is truly comic and lively . |
| 28 | GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd is doing rather well with its Synchronous Digital Hierarchy transmission equipment , which enables phone operators to reconfigure circuits in seconds : yesterday it won part of a £20m contract for the equipment from British Telecommunications Plc , sharing it with L M Ericsson Telefon AB , and won all of a £17m contract for similar equipment from Deutsche Bundespost Telekom . |
| 29 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 30 | Ask if there 's any chance of his getting it to Nell Richmond at Chateau Lake Louise by tomorrow night or the next morning . ’ |