Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an employee has produced a computer program outside the normal course of his duties , but has used his employer 's equipment or done it during the hours of his employment , the ownership of copyright is more difficult to predict , although it is more likely that the employer will be treated as owner . |
| 2 | They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it . |
| 3 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 4 | The artist calmly took a small mechanical device and positioned it against the side of her finger which wore a glittering pair of rings in emerald and diamond . |
| 5 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 6 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 7 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 8 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 9 | So it 's floated and knitted it on the back . |
| 10 | Tuan Ti Fo stoppered the bottle and fixed it to the small hook on his belt , then straightened up . |
| 11 | So Alfred had laced his own brandy and taken it to the little hut which had youthful associations , there to kill himself in a manner that was almost ceremonial . |
| 12 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 13 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 14 | Then suddenly the boar had turned about and hurled it into the air . |
| 15 | As the then district administrator put it , the district had scratched around for every spare penny over the years and sunk it into the hospital , and yet more and more resources were being demanded . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've bought you a safety seat and fitted it in the back . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album . |
| 18 | Over a period of 22 years , the Caldwells have tamed a rough diamond and beaten it into the gem it is today . |
| 19 | Labour had taken the election manifesto of 1983 — the so-called ‘ longest suicide note in history ’ — and rewritten it on the basis of what it thought the people did n't want . |
| 20 | ‘ The lease for the tenancy of the flat in Charles Street arrived yesterday and I have signed and returned it to the agent , ’ he told Alice . |
| 21 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |