Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are in a situation where you have to clean up after your dog it is advisable to encourage it to defecate on a surface which will make the task easier . |
| 2 | Wherever you are out with your dog try to encourage it to defecate in a place where you can clean up easily afterwards . |
| 3 | For a market economy to work it depends on the existence of certain values . |
| 4 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 5 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 6 | Earlier we find little trace of it generally , and so we ought not to be surprised to find it missing from the ordinary Person 's consciousness of time in those days . |
| 7 | Keegan knew his side would face Barnsley 's stifling three-man central-defensive formation , yet the attempts to counter it bordered on the banal . |
| 8 | In th , and this is not a school who 's decided to set it face against the county council , and it 's services . |
| 9 | A technique whereby a thin skin of silver was rolled under pressure and heat to cause it to fuse onto a copper sheet base . |
| 10 | I have enjoyed playing this miniature ever since finding the reproduction of it on page 248 of Eric Walter White 's Stravinsky catalogue ( 2nd edition , London , 1979 ) , but it is delightful to hear it played by a pianist of Béroff 's stature . |
| 11 | The caterpillar is cleverly disguised to help it hide among the leaves . |
| 12 | America gives Israel more than $2 billion a year to help it survive in a region where all its Arab neighbours , bar only Egypt , reject it . |
| 13 | Someone has to experience it to know to the full how you feel . |
| 14 | I decided to take a lot of the fruit , and to put it to dry in the sun for a time . |
| 15 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 16 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 17 | LIQUIDITY AND HOW TO MANAGE IT Tips for the treasurer charged with managing the group 's short-term cleared cash balance |
| 18 | It is unforgivable to leave it to wither on the vine . |
| 19 | He opened one gate slowly , trying not to let it scrape on the gravel . |
| 20 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 21 | You could , if you wish , try Java Fern , which is rather too woody for the tastes of many species — but if you want a good covering you will need to let it establish for a few months — or else you can cheat and use Java Fern-covered rocks/bogwood from another tank . |
| 22 | There was too much weight hanging from the wings to let it glide through an awkward bank like that , all the time losing the upthrust from the breeze ; losing it twice , because now it followed the turning plane . |
| 23 | Even in defeat Germany was too valuable — strategically and economically — for either East or West to let it fall into the hands of the other . |
| 24 | From the 1860s organisations such as the Charity Organisation Society , the Salvation Army , Church and many other philanthropic missions , through their direct intervention in working-class life attempted to mould it to conform to a middle-class norm . |
| 25 | It is currently in the hands of a young family and , with an asking price of £385,000 , it is surely not too extravagant a dream to hope it passes into the care of another one . |
| 26 | It was too dark to see the line , and Trent called to the man on the rod to keep it pointing at the Zodiac . |
| 27 | The small piece of plastic or glass fibre protruding at the tail of the board which helps to keep it sailing in a straight line . |
| 28 | If the glider is trimmed for a normal cruising speed , because of the longitudinal stability it will require a forward movement and pressure on the stick to keep it diving at a higher speed . |
| 29 | Funded initially by the Probation Board and the Belfast Action Team , the cash-starved scheme now requires a further £140,000 injection to keep it going for a full year . |
| 30 | The force knows exactly how much harder it has to pull on the big one to keep it going in the same circle . |