Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 2 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
| 3 | The big hand was on my neck again , twisting it like the focus grip of some humanoid camera . |
| 4 | He drove the corkscrew forward , burying it in the man 's right eye , shoving down hard on it , twisting it in the socket , ignoring the spouting vitreous liquid that erupted from the riven orb . |
| 5 | If you wish to make Abbeylink deposits you must use the official envelopes provided by us and ensure that the envelope is properly sealed before depositing it in the Abbeylink machine . |
| 6 | The main shape of the landscape — mountains , rolling hills , and flat plains — is based on the geological rock formations , but has been severely modified by the movement of glaciers which carried vast quantities of rock , grinding it down in the process , depositing it in the form of boulders , gravel , sand , and silt , often many miles from its original outcrop . |
| 7 | She handed this creature to Roland , who took it as he might have done a kitten , cradling it in the crook of his elbow , and adding to it , in turn , the nightcapped one , in tiny white pleats and broderie anglaise , and the dark-headed one , severe in dark peacock . |
| 8 | In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC . |
| 9 | If the military do n't use the area often , they can not cause as much distress to the natural environment as opening it to the public would . |
| 10 | But if the reputation as high-handed , unloved and ruthless stepmother hurt ( and it clearly did ) , it did not deflect her from her purpose of re-vamping Althorp and opening it to the public as a top-attraction stately home in a competitive business . |
| 11 | This will include both initial restoration work and the annual deficit on running the house and opening it to the public . |
| 12 | She goes quiet again and takes one last draw from the cigarette before stubbing it into the ashtray . |
| 13 | His phobia had spread to his grooms when Raimundo 's even crueller predecessor had broken the leg of a grey filly , hurling it to the ground for branding , and the following day he had died of snake bite . |
| 14 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 15 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 16 | The actual work can be a bit fiddly — sometimes an arrangement just wo n't go right and I have to restrain myself from hurling it across the room . |
| 17 | Suddenly the man bent and grabbed the leather thong , swinging the hound off its feet and hurling it against the tree . |
| 18 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 19 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 20 | 2 Straighten left leg out behind you , keeping it off the floor . |
| 21 | But the PRO is charged with keeping it in the public eye . |
| 22 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 23 | Forest manager Brian Clough insists on keeping it in the family after Liverpool boss Graeme Souness had made a move for Nigel . |
| 24 | How about just keeping it in the bag ? |
| 25 | He said : ‘ This appears at first glance to be quite a simple scheme , until we come to actually explaining it to the customer . |
| 26 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 27 | The monetarist line is the populist line and to prove it , Sir Rhodes Boyson was peddling it around the Winter Gardens yesterday . |
| 28 | Common Law could not prevent the trustee employing it for the wife 's benefit , and Equity would compel him to do so . |
| 29 | ‘ There , ’ he said , claiming her achievement as his own and inflating it in the process . |
| 30 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |