Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fell forwards and I managed to catch it on my outstretched forearm . |
| 2 | For it is now quite certain that Darwin , who gives no credit to Wallace in his Origin of Species , would have been quite unable to write it without his essential contribution . |
| 3 | Not sure enough to write it on his precious list . |
| 4 | Purcell thought highly enough of this little improvement to write it into his own song-book as an emendation : so it is scarcely conceivable that he would have allowed the original , unimproved version to go into a score being copied under his own supervision for a revival — especially given that the effect of the improvement itself was theatrical rather than primarily musical . |
| 5 | I have to write it in my important portfolio |
| 6 | He slipped a loop around one of her wrists , and passed it under the table to secure it to her other wrist . |
| 7 | Will the new channel be able to provide it within its economic constraints ? |
| 8 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 9 | Nor are we likely to find it in our cost-conscious supermarkets . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever your lighting needs you 're sure to find it in my new No. 10 Lighting Catalogue ’ . |
| 11 | Grudgingly the British now agreed to a joint expedition , but they were determined to launch it on their own terms , which were quite different from de Gaulle 's . |
| 12 | The complete mechanism design can thus be developed with greater confidence — not only are all the performance functions available but the mechanism can be " run " ( by cycling layers ) so as to observe it throughout its complete operating cycle . |
| 13 | Urine advertised as free of detectable drugs is on offer by mail-order to anxious test takers , who could try to substitute it for their own . |
| 14 | The organisers are expecting 40,000 young people to visit it during its four-day run . |
| 15 | Instead Ford has decided not to pass the Government 's tax cut on to the motorist but to pour it into its own pockets and profits . |
| 16 | He became aware of the excessive beating of his heart , and remembered the attendant 's advice not to overdo it on his first visit . |
| 17 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 18 | Since you have failed to give him Famagusta , he proposes to celebrate it in his own capital . |
| 19 | After the reports have been discussed by the ACP I pass the report , together with the views of the ACP to the Leader of the Party who no doubt will then wish to discuss it with his Consultative Committee . |
| 20 | The Opposition was also anxious to embarrass the Government , and to trap it within its own latent inconsistencies . |
| 21 | She had to hear it from his own lips , even if it meant that part of her died . |
| 22 | ‘ At first the idea of writing a wind serenade to precede The Marriage of Figaro was daunting : it has such an exciting overture , it certainly needs no further curtain-raiser — and what if I took a theme from the opera and overdid it , so no wanted to hear it in its proper place ? |
| 23 | You 've got to buy it through their recommended outlets . |
| 24 | The other member , who might have been expected to buy it for his own son , a young man recently qualified in law , did not at first do so ; he said business was unreliable , there were not enough clients , the reputation of the firm had been allowed to run down . |
| 25 | We now have to buy it from our petty cash . |
| 26 | Even in making oneself more aware in preparation for a choice , it will be enough that one can identify which would be the relatively stronger inclination in the fullest attainable awareness ; there will be no need to experience it in its full intensity or to prolong it after the choice . |
| 27 | On the basis of these standard skills there is enormous flexibility for the individual to develop his own identity and to express it through his specialised skills . |
| 28 | They naturally did not think to apply it to their own empires . |
| 29 | If you are able to balance straights yourself or have asked a nutritionist to do it for you all well and good , but for the horse owner with little or no experience in feeding , compound feeds are the answer . |
| 30 | Mm , I always use to do it with my German Shepherd . |