Example sentences of "and [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Suddenly the man bent and grabbed the leather thong , swinging the hound off its feet and hurling it against the tree . |
| 32 | Up to now , ScottishPower has adopted another treatment — deferring the difference on repurchase and amortising it against the finance cost of the term of the original borrowing . |
| 33 | Some hours later , out she went again , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 34 | Next morning , when the glimmer in the skulls ' eyes had died away , she went off as before , flying in her mortar and rowing it with the pestle . |
| 35 | Please indicate your acceptance of the terms of this Agreement by signing the enclosed duplicate copy in the space indicated and returning it to the undersigned at the letterhead address . |
| 36 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 37 | It involves sucking the contaminated oil into a cleaning system housed in a mobile trailer , cleaning it and returning it to the transformer . |
| 38 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 39 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 40 | We will pay the reasonable cost , where necessary , of taking your car to the nearest suitable repairer and returning it after the repair to your address as shown in the schedule . |
| 41 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he asked conversationally , divesting himself of his jacket and slinging it over the sofa . |
| 42 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 43 | But if the reputation as high-handed , unloved and ruthless stepmother hurt ( and it clearly did ) , it did not deflect her from her purpose of re-vamping Althorp and opening it to the public as a top-attraction stately home in a competitive business . |
| 44 | This will include both initial restoration work and the annual deficit on running the house and opening it to the public . |
| 45 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 46 | Mrs McMullen 's face and neck had been covered in a thick layer of mud and Dr Wayte suggested that an attacker had sat astride her , possibly grabbing soil and pushing it along the body and into her mouth . |
| 47 | It may be worth making a sample heading with a little spare fabric and fitting it to the track with appropriate hooks in order to ascertain the depth needed . |
| 48 | It is believed that the discharging system used for grain removal is unique and involves removing the grain and transporting it to the mill without having to remove the boat 's hatch covers . |
| 49 | There is n't a track on it that I feel does n't do what it should do , which is taking a song out of its time and place and whisking it into the present to make it meaningful today . ’ |
| 50 | There is n't a track on it that I feel does n't do what it should do , which is taking a song out of its time and place and whisking it into the present to make it meaningful today . ’ |
| 51 | In view of this high cost , he wondered if Members would consider omitting the residence and replacing it with the Colonial Office . |
| 52 | In animals , the term is also used for the technique of inactivating the nucleus of an egg and replacing it with the nucleus of a body cell . |
| 53 | In practice a few frogs have been produced by killing the egg nucleus by ultraviolet irradiation , and replacing it with the nucleus from a cell of the gut of a tadpole . |
| 54 | The Conservatives successfully mounted a campaign which linked welfare scroungers , individualism , anti-collectivism , breaking the dependency culture and replacing it with the enterprise culture , trade unionists as criminals , moral decline , the need for personal responsibility and personal discipline . |
| 55 | You can do the same thing on a computer file , deleting each phonetic entry and replacing it with the phonemic transcription or an orthographic one . |
| 56 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 57 | I believe that the public want us to get on with abolishing the community charge and replacing it with the council tax . |
| 58 | Now the new pope , Innocent , was escorted to the front of the basilica where on a platform in full view of the people , he was crowned with the tiara , the senior deacon ( i.e. the archdeacon ) removing the mitre from the pope 's head and replacing it with the tiara . |
| 59 | After a quick wash she dragged on an old pair of jeans and an equally ancient navy sweater before emptying the bucket and replacing it on the dresser . |
| 60 | The Federal Assembly on May 2 voted in favour of abolishing the death penalty and replacing it for the relevant offences with life imprisonment . |