Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar . |
| 2 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 3 | He expands upon this : ‘ It does not follow from their alleged unawareness of the possibility of death that they do not fear death , and flee it as the greatest of evils ’ ( 1977 : 40 ) . |
| 4 | That the calf is afraid of death , let alone its fleeing it as the greatest of evils , seems misleadingly to ascribe to it a self-conscious grasp of death and evil , possible only of beings capable of language . |
| 5 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 6 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |
| 7 | to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it . |
| 8 | go to the supermarket and I would bung it of the best of stuff . |
| 9 | When it came to fisticuffs Sean Connery was happy to mix it with the best of them — ‘ He believed stuntmen were there to take the knocks and let them have it in the fight scenes , ’ said one . |
| 10 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 11 | It was too tempting a target , and the Zeppelin aimed for it with the last of its deadly cargo , but this time , they overshot the mark . |
| 12 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 13 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 14 | It gives her tummy ache and she administers something similar when she flattens her daughter 's body , locking it in the tightest of corsets . |
| 15 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |
| 16 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 17 | This causes problems er , if I may say so , er but erm , it , the paragraph does n't make any reference to the date , it 's paragraph five point three , now I want to see debate in the point in erm , implementing it before the first of April . |
| 18 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 19 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 20 | The way I approach anything is to do it to the best of my ability , whatever . |
| 21 | But , then when you 've done it to the best of your ability and you ca n't really see the rewards , then you have to analyse why . |
| 22 | I tend to get completely engrossed with what I am doing and do it to the best of my ability , ’ … and that 's running Runrig . |
| 23 | Okay , if we do it to the fourteenth of the second ninety four , er and then that 'd come up , I can tell you what we cos Peter 's just is halfway through it with Well I say halfway through it . |
| 24 | And I put it to the some of the women and men cleaners you see , How would like a rest day roster ? |
| 25 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
| 26 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 27 | Yes I leave on the eleventh of March so can we have it on the eight of March ? |
| 28 | and erm , you know , they spend it on the six of them pocket money for sixteen years it all of them have left school now |
| 29 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 30 | Still , set it beside the earliest of the quotations , from the Webbs ' A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain , dating from 1920 , and we can see how far the Empirical Socialist view had changed . |