Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 2 | I think I a bit put it in the back now . |
| 3 | Right , now you 've got a bit to match it with . |
| 4 | I hung it on a branch to keep it from getting damp . |
| 5 | ‘ It would simply be a formality to renew it on a long-term basis . ’ |
| 6 | Another course open to the High Court when it quashes the decision of a governmental body is to remit the matter to the agency with a direction to reconsider it in accordance with the findings of the High Court . |
| 7 | The historical interest of the collection and , indeed , of the palazzo itself has led to a decision to open it as a museum . |
| 8 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 9 | It comes complete with all fittings for usual tap-threads , and all you will need is a wrench to tighten it in position to comply with the law — incidentally , a fine of up to £400 can be imposed for non-compliance with the law ! |
| 10 | It comes complete with all fittings for usual tap-threads , and all you need is a wrench to tighten it in position . |
| 11 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 12 | I tied a tarpaulin over the car and paid a farmer with a horse to drag it through the streets of the city and out to the Plainpalais gate . |
| 13 | The infliction of pain upon a horse affects it in a very profound way . |
| 14 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 15 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 16 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 17 | A herb will protect them , says the disguised angel to the brothers ; a shepherd gave it to him : |
| 18 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 19 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 20 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 21 | A weekly magazine , L'Europeo , published a piece on the problems of restoration and reproduced a photograph of a panel by the sixteenth-century Ferrarese painter Ortolano , in the Pinacoteca Capodimonte , with a caption describing it as Leonardo 's ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 22 | They employ a fungus to do it for them . |
| 23 | Religion is based on the longing for the father , and the infant 's wish for a protector to defend it against feelings of helplessness . |
| 24 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 25 | It would n't take a very big hit with the mass of a forklift to dent it in actual fact . |
| 26 | A US-German committee that issued a preparatory report on the need for such a council sees it as a forerunner for an institution to promote cooperation between the United States and all of Europe . |
| 27 | ‘ The thought of having the baby without a home to take it to is awful , ’ the 22-year-old mum says . |
| 28 | Phil Taylor beat Phil Bolton to keep Northumberland 's hopes alive but Caldy 's Ray Hughes and Jan Higginbotham of Bramhall both won and Jamie Curtis of Didsbury got a half to clinch it for Cheshire . |
| 29 | Hazel heard its beak hit a pebble in the grass with a sound like a snail-shell when a thrush beats it on a stone . |
| 30 | A promenade links it with Alassio . |