Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran . |
| 3 | A month ago I decided to have it straightened by an acid perm . |
| 4 | Keep the tenancy , and fight to have it valued as an investment property when the time comes . |
| 5 | Practice implies a world of fact and is concerned with the alteration of ‘ what is ’ to make it conform with an unrealized idea , a ‘ to be ’ . |
| 6 | As I hinted in the first paper , traditional design understanding has tried , in effect , to simplify design to make it conform to an already existent model of what a ( scientific , technological , artistic ) activity should look like . |
| 7 | This is all part of the same project described by Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous , a project of defining gender in a particular way and trying to make it look like an essence , something real and unchanging and natural and necessary . |
| 8 | ‘ The corpse was then moved to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . ’ |
| 9 | They found Lady Eleanor dead in her chamber and , concerned about the possible consequences , took her body to the foot of the stairs to make it look like an accident . |
| 10 | matchsticks together and then I stuck one half on top of the other to make it look like an extending ladder . |