Example sentences of "it [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the best hotels they tended to view whisky as a kind of pastis and served it for drinking in the French way . |
| 2 | You do Yes but , you do n't know how much er , I mean , you ca n't sell it for housing at the moment . |
| 3 | It started as a movement , that is again the critics that is that again the critics picked it up and made something of it worth discussing in the mid-sixties . |
| 4 | The open aspect of the village , positioned to enjoy day-long sunshine and spared the dominance of high mountains , suggests a calm and friendly environment , especially appreciated upon reaching it after travelling through the exciting scenery of the Highlands . |
| 5 | In a tract written in defence of the petitioners , Lord Somers , the Junto chief , bitterly inveighed against the House of Commons , accusing it of encroaching upon the executive powers of the Crown by seeking to impose punishments without the King 's authority . |
| 6 | What is it like to live in the countryside ? |
| 7 | Fair enough , so what was it like working with the big guy ? |
| 8 | What was it like working with the late John Huston ? |
| 9 | Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority . |
| 10 | BSDI bases its claims of no-licence-required on representations made to it in writing by the University 's Computer Systems Research Group . |
| 11 | It has it in writing from the LTA that it would not favour any tender from Tretorn for its Category A tournaments . |
| 12 | We expect the people to be like them and presuppose it in dealing with the people themselves . |
| 13 | I had come upon it in thumbing through The Writers and Artists Yearbook ; it seems to have been an Anglo-Catholic journal . |
| 14 | Last week , Virgin said it was ready to settle if BA dropped a clause forbidding it from referring to the matter in future . |
| 15 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 16 | A few seconds later as the aircraft gains more speed , it will need more forward movement to prevent it from unsticking with the tail-wheel or skid touching the ground , and climbing away too steeply . |
| 17 | They might have been intended to catch the blade of an opponent , thus preventing it from sliding past the hilt , and injuring the holder . ’ |
| 18 | In particular , surplus countries often neutralized an inflow of gold by preventing it from adding to the domestic money supply . |
| 19 | The steel furred to keep it from cracking in the cold , |
| 20 | The name seemed to slip out accidentally , and before Doreen could prevent it from floating into the room . |
| 21 | I put the basket on the counter and held onto it to keep it from banging into the shopping of the woman in front . |
| 22 | The price of this combo is excellent for a twin channel amp , but its shortcomings in the lead department may keep it from playing in the World Series and confine it to the Junior League . |
| 23 | If you had one of these black holes on the surface of the earth , there would be no way to stop it from falling through the floor to the center of the earth . |
| 24 | To make the best use of the program it is necessary to understand what you wish to achieve , and how to achieve it before embarking on the coding . |
| 25 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 26 | I suggest the patient takes it on waking for the first two or three days and then experiments either with increasing the amount or by introducing an extra dose in the afternoon or evening . |
| 27 | I have therefore tried to discover some way in which this House can fulfil its duty to decide the case before it without trespassing on the sensibilities of the House of Commons . |
| 28 | It only would have been like The Housemartins watered down if they 'd have kept doing it without believing in the band . |
| 29 | what about doing it without looking at the book ? |
| 30 | I managed to absorb it without falling off the chair . |